Project Virgle is straight out of the Probability Broach. Read it and you will think, “How excellent. This is how it should work. Private companies partnering for space exploration.”
Virgle’s goal is simple: the establishment of a permanent human settlement on Mars. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and I feel strongly that contemporary technology is sufficiently advanced to make such an effort both successful and economical, and that it’s high time that humanity moved beyond Earth and began our great, long journey to explore the stars and establish our first lasting foothold on another world.
And then you realize it’s an April Fool’s joke. Back to reality – well, this reality.
