orionop's Journal: Google: Announcing Project Virgle

Google has announced project Virgle, a joint effort between Google and the Virgin Group.
From the article, "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."