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- | [[Image:Virglelogo.gif|thumb|right| | + | [[Image:Virglelogo.gif|thumb|right|150px|Virgle logo]] |
- | '''Project Virgle''' is [[ | + | '''Project Virgle''' is [[Google]] and Sir Richard Branson's plan to colonize the planet Mars. |
==Become a Pioneer== | ==Become a Pioneer== | ||
Google is now accepting applications to be a Virgle Pioneer. To apply, the [[you|victim]] goes to the Virgle website and fills out a [[?|questionnaire]]. Following that, you submit a video explaining why you want to live on Mars. You could win a coveted slot on the earliest, most uncomfortable and dangerously untested manned space flights to the new New World. | Google is now accepting applications to be a Virgle Pioneer. To apply, the [[you|victim]] goes to the Virgle website and fills out a [[?|questionnaire]]. Following that, you submit a video explaining why you want to live on Mars. You could win a coveted slot on the earliest, most uncomfortable and dangerously untested manned space flights to the new New World. | ||
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If a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step, then our 550-million-mile journey to Mars will begin with 550,000 1/500th-of-a-mile steps, as the LSE3, a multi-stage heavy lifter now under construction using the World War II-era Liberty Ship philosophy ("Make them fast, ugly and in large numbers"), launches our staging components into low earth orbit. | If a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step, then our 550-million-mile journey to Mars will begin with 550,000 1/500th-of-a-mile steps, as the LSE3, a multi-stage heavy lifter now under construction using the World War II-era Liberty Ship philosophy ("Make them fast, ugly and in large numbers"), launches our staging components into low earth orbit. | ||
===2015: Virgle Base 1=== | ===2015: Virgle Base 1=== | ||
- | If you're like us, and deep down you aren't all that interested in going to Mars in the first place unless it means setting loose a swarm of super-cool robots -- well, rest easy. When the Virgle 1 lands, teams of autonomous rovers and assembly platforms will leap into action | + | If you're like us, and deep down you aren't all that interested in going to Mars in the first place unless it means setting loose a swarm of super-cool robots -- well, rest easy. When the Virgle 1 lands, teams of autonomous rovers and assembly platforms will leap into action: |
===2016: Flying to Mars=== | ===2016: Flying to Mars=== | ||
- | Following confirmation of the unmanned flights' successful staging on the Martian surface, the program will begin a synchronized semiannual schedule with human crews. | + | Following confirmation of the unmanned flights' successful staging on the Martian surface, the program will begin a synchronized semiannual schedule with human crews. What will a Virgle Pioneer's life be like on the five-month voyage to Mars? Let's take a look. |
===2108: Virgle City=== | ===2108: Virgle City=== | ||
[[Image:Virgle city.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Virgle City]] | [[Image:Virgle city.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Virgle City]] | ||
One hundred years after the launch of Project Virgle, we see the emergence of an enduring human community, with its own economy, ecology and social customs and mores. | One hundred years after the launch of Project Virgle, we see the emergence of an enduring human community, with its own economy, ecology and social customs and mores. | ||
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
- | * [[ | + | * [[Google]] |
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
* [[http://www.google.com/virgle/index.htm Virgle Website]] | * [[http://www.google.com/virgle/index.htm Virgle Website]] | ||
- | [[Category: History | + | [[Category: History]] |