The reason why I’m a suitable candidate for the Virgle’s Project is because I’m originally from a borderworld called Xen…

Yesterday, Google announced an April Fools’ Hoax (or not), that the would be teaming up with Virgin on a joint project called Virgle. This is one of Google’s newer, participatory April Fools’ Day joke (or not), seeing that they’ve motivated more than 100 people to post video replies on the Virgle YouTube channel.

Naturally, I too, posted a response:

I wonder how many of you caught the multiple references in the vodcast.

Ultimately, though, I’m genuinely interested in the Virgle project, if it turns out not to be an April Fools’ Day joke. Although the chances of that is supremely low (or high, depending if you take into account the recent holiday that Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Richard Branson, Tony Blair, and other high profile people took together on Necker Island as a possible launchpad for such a discussion), I am still very interested in such a project.

I don’t know why, but I’m keenly putting my hopes on such a project, hoping its real. It may be a product of hyperactive imagination, being on the frontier of space, very much like a wild west + outer space (Star Wars anyone?). You may dismiss it as a boyish fantasy, but I’m very sure I’m grounded in scientific fact. We can make it to Mars. And it is for the betterment of humanity. FTL for now is unfeasible, but living on Mars (or the moon for that matter) is achievable.

Think of all the scientific knowledge we’d get!

I personally hope to see outer space one day, perhaps step foot on another planet (or satellite, or extra-terrestial body), and if this Virgle project were real (alas) I’d really consider submitting an application. There isn’t much I know, compared to the expertise of others (very quickly, Sean Carroll and his ilk comes into mind), but it’d be a thrilling experience nonetheless.

Ah… well.. geekiness aside, here are some vital statistics:

Render Time: 9 hours (I shortened it to 2.5 hours)
Programs used: 3DS Max 2008, Vegas 7, Audacity
Music credits: Jien Han Cho
Retakes: 7 (I kept stuttering about going to Mars)
Number of game references: 5

Also, I’ve updated yesterday’s Sigh April 1st post to include a list of best April fools hoaxes I found yesterday.

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