I Got Suckered

They got me, and it breaks my heart.

On April 3rd I came across a link to Project Virgle

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.

And there was accompanying video.



Having done quite a bit of space migration research, their claims seemed ambitious, but not at all out of the realm of possibility. Perhaps they built the hoax up too well.

You see, it was April 3rd. I wasn't expecting it. While my dream is to live in an orbital colony, I figured a trip to Mars was good enough and quite possibly the best chance I'd get any time in the near enough future that there would be even a shred of hope to participate in it. The chances of success the first time out would be slim. Most likely along the lines of an over 90% mortality rate for the first ten years. Ouch! But I still would have signed up. I still would have at least dared. We are too fucking long overdo for this!

I got April Fooled on April Third! Not Fucking Cool! Where's my space colony God Damnit? I want my space colony! I would give up all of my Earthly possessions and obsessions for a chance at leaving this planet forever. Instead I find out they're all a bunch of dirty filthy pig fuckers! I hate you all!

So I'm gonna go build my own orbital colony... with blackjack and hookers! Who's with me?