Virgin and Google to put men on Mars, via Virgle

As Sir Richard Branson writes on the Official Google blog: "Virgle's goal is simple: 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."

Anything really good out there today?

As usual, the most complete list is probably here.

For newspaper readers, the Daily Telegraph has a short roundup.