VIRGLE: Google, Virgin Join Force to Conquer Mars

Today, Google and Virgin Group announced that the two companies would join forces to establish a permanent Mars base by April 1st, 2108, a hundred years from today. Virgle as the new joint venture is called, has selected the Martian Lunae planum as the site of the future human settlement on Mars.

If you would like to apply to be considered for the Mars mission go here. Many people have already left applications.

Ok, it’s an April’s fools hoax, but remember that real products like Gmail were announced on April 1st (2004) as well, and everyone was sure that it was a joke because the huge disk space of 1 GB was unheard off back then in a free service.

As for me, I’d like to believe, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be disappointed, as I was when the Google TiSP turned out to be a joke. OMG, did they mention you can use a septic tank? Yeah, right! The tyranny of Verizon shall continue.

For a full list of Google April 1st hoaxes visit Wikipedia. I am sure that by now Virgle found its way there.