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1 April 2008

I Won't Be Going To Mars With Virgle.

01APR08 – Happy April Fool’s Day, huh? In case you missed it, the Google team teamed up with Virgin Airline’s Richard Branson to invite web surfers the chance to die on Mars within 20 years. After a short and surprisingly unpleasant 15 multiple choice question test, I was informed:

Well, you’re distressingly normal and could conceivably adjust to life as a deep space pioneer, though we recommend instead that you leave the Mars missions to the serious whack jobs who scored over 130 and instead finish year 3 of law school, tuck your toddler into bed, design Web 2.0 applications, run for Congress or do whatever other normal, healthy, middle-of-the-road thing you’re currently doing with your normal, healthy, middle-of-the-road life. If you’re determined to give Virgle a try, though, you can submit your video here.

That’s a pity because I seriously doubt Congress will have anything to do with me and I was rather looking forward to being somewhere else (other than Earth) at the end of 2012, you know, just in case.

If you’d like to be insulted one way or another based on your “distressing” normalcy or lack thereof, consider trying to apply to become a Virgle Pioneer where you too may fight for the chance to perish aboard hastily tested interplanetary transports. Virgle.

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