Mais um projecto do Google, desta vez com o intuito de "recrutar" pioneiros para Marte.
As candidaturas estão abertas online em http://www.google.com/virgle/
For thousands of years,
the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world's every last nook, cranny and subdivision.An invitation.
Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.The question is, do you want to join us?
Ever yearned to journey to the stars? You can learn how to become a Virgle Pioneer, test your Pioneering potential, or join the Mission Control community that will help develop the 100 Year Plan we've outlined here.
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Muito interessante, principalmente tendo em consideração quem está na génese da iniciativa. Dá para ver o tipo de coisas que estes "empreendedores" andam a pensar e que tipo de "business ideas" são capazes de gerar (não a muito longo prazo mas sim a curto e médio prazo)
Nuno,
I also read this some weeks ago and was enthusiastic. Finally someone really will do it! And it was a business-company to do it!
I read so many novels about mars-exploration and now it should be reality.
So I was very sad to hear that it was just a joke, a fake promoted on April, the first.
But what is funny: The story gets such a momentum, that perhaps finally they think about it and say: we do it anyway! Let's hope!
Stephan,
well that was really disappointing for me too ... I was already looking up their application questions to tune up my score (just kidding ;) !
Up too a certain point it made sense with that Google posture to think in the long term and look to business perspectives for many, many decades.
Honestly my first idea when looking to virgle was that they where profiling applicants for their HR recruiting process.
But let's not give up on our hopes :) - "googling" about virgle I found this text (emphasis added):
"Sorry, but the page you're looking for doesn't actually exist. Why? Well, because...we didn't have time to build it. Because we didn't think that particular page was all that important. Because this is just an early version of the Virgle site and lots more pages will be coming down the pike as the project --
-- oh, all right. Fine. April Fool's. Ha, ha, ha. It isn't real. There. Are you happy? Does it please you to drag us out of our lovely little fantasy world, to crush all our hopes and dreams? Is that really what you need to hear? Fine, you've heard it. Virgle isn't real.
Yet."
Ainda que não seja desta,
o sonho de Arthur C. Clark está vivo.
Se não existir vida inteligente noutros planetas, temos a responsabilidade de o popular (não sei se é este o termo)
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