google offering mars mission

[Jerry_111]

wow!

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

 

[bam23]

That sounds out of this world.

 

[Evo]

*checks date...*

 

[FieryGoose]

Honestly what is this? I'm too lazy to read all the explanations myself as it is probably a waste of time and possibly an April fools joke...

 

[Krynn72]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmSdy_9blB4

 

[Jimmeh]

If I were to find myself a passenger on a cramped three-month journey from Earth to Mars with nothing to do with my free time except play a thousand consecutive games of backgammon with a fellow crew member whom I didn't particularly like to begin with, I would probably:

1.) Kick some serious backgammon butt, yo.
2.) Be sure to lose enough games to ensure that my fellow player doesn't build up unsustainable levels of frustration and go postal.
3.) Go postal.

 

[Remus]

They honestly had me going untill this

Entertainment - On-board supercomputers perform most ship and life maintenance tasks, up to and including games, movies and other forms of trivially simplistic human entertainment. Crew members will communicate with these machines via an auditory Holistic Artificial Language interface visually mediated by a glowing red light.

 

[theotherguy]

This would be so awesome if it were real.

 

[Remus]

This would be so awesome if it were real.

Yes, it would. But in the real world, a full blown mars city in a hundred years with NASA running things? :|..... yeah right

 

[Vegeta897]

lol look at all the submitted youtube videos.

 

[Ennui]

For about seven seconds I was overcome with excitement and interest and then I remembered what day it is

 

[L3N!N]

April fool's right?


WRONG!

Ugh.

 

[Remus]

April fool's right?


WRONG!

Ugh.

In Soviet Russia, joke fools April.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I bet they have enough money to actually do this, if they felt like it.

 

[Ennui]

I doubt that, financing the design and construction of spaceships and launch pads, rocket fuel, qualified personnel etc are a bit on the expensive side.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Cheeky virgle bastards

 

[L3N!N]

In Soviet Russia, joke fools April.

Actually, we don't have April.

 

[Ennui]

How is it you're in the Soviet Union? AM I SPEAKING TO THE PAST?

 

[mindless_moder]

http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html

 

[Vegeta897]

http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html

rofl. Oh such win.

"This is old news. I read about this announcement yesterday on Google"

 

[Ennui]

I had better be reincarnated or something because I absolutely need to live in the future and do excellent spacecraft things.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

I think I would rather live on the Moon than on Mars. That way I could go mad quicker. The Earth would be RIGHT THERE.

 

[Danimal]

Too bad the world ends before that happens. D:

 

[Druckles]

I preferred last years "Google paper". Now that was epic. Considering they'd done the moon prank already, this was verging on unoriginal.

(don't tell them I said that! oh shit, no, the spiders see me!)

 

[The Monkey]

I always love the Google April Jokes.

 

[VirusType2]

Enough with the april fools jokes.

This is the real.
Virgin Records started Virgin Galactic for wealthy vacationers:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=virgin+space+travel&btnG=Search



Until then, Mars Needs Women.

(shameless plug)