Just a few hours ago, Richard Branson (Virgin Mobile rich dude), along with Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google guys), anounced a plan to send up the very first colony to Mars. This amazing project is said to be starting in 2014 and could take up to 20 years to launch. They are taking applications at http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html . Richard Branson stated "that 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."
You will find more information here: Official Google Blog: Announcing Project Virgle
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