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Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes:

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.

Er is een 100-jarenplan. Het hele project is een "Open Souce Planet". Vragen die daarbij opkomen:

A quick sampling of intriguing open-source-related questions to which we hope our burgeoning community of interested users might offers answers could include:

• How should an open source planetary development project interact with existing companies and markets?
• What's the right time for Virgle Inc. hold its initial public offering? When the first spaceship lands? When the first Pioneers stake their claim to Martian property? When the settlement is self-sustained from Mars alone? Tomorrow?
• At what point should Martian property move from being distributed solely among Pioneers and open source investors to being traded to outside investors?
• How should a civilian Martian government be developed independent of our private company?
• How would peer to peer project reviews work and what would be the principles behind triggering escalations and balancing communication and development while staying away from hierarchical viscosity?

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