Virgin founder/chairman Richard Branson and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page just posted videos on the first manned adventure to Mars -- except they wish to inhabit the planet with colonists for years to come!

Cool idea? Check. Suspicious? Definitely. Here's what I found off the FAQ page:

oh, all right. Fine. April Fool's. Ha, ha, ha. It isn't real. There. Are you happy? Does it please you to drag us out of our lovely little fantasy world, to crush all our hopes and dreams? Is that really what you need to hear? Fine, you've heard it. Virgle isn't real.

Yet.

Sure, they posted this on April 1st. But for some reason, this project sounds just crazy enough for Richard Branson to endorse it.

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