It’s been a great month for the explorer. First James Cameron voyages to the deepest part of the ocean in a vertical torpedo sub. Then Jeff Bezos finds the Apollo 11 booster 14,000 ft. undersea and gets permission from NASA to retrieve two of the massive F-1 engines.

And now, in the spirit of the season, Richard Branson has launched www.virginvolcanic.com

“Only 500 people have been to space, only three people have been to the bottom of the ocean, but no one has ever attempted to journey to the core of an active volcano. Until now.

Using patented carbon-carbon materials pioneered for deep space exploration, Virgin is proud to announce a revolutionary new vehicle, VVS1, which will be capable of plunging three people into the molten lava core of an active volcano.”

15 responses to “Virgin Volcanic”

  1. time to get excited…
    Risk Seeking Hot Lava Christmas

  2. the virgin uncorker?

  3. some people have too much time and no useful thoughts

  4. Hilarious. The nausea induced by spinning round inside that thing would be immense. And anyway, would the physics work at all? Where does the torque come from??

  5. "By taking the heat from molten lava Virgin Volcanic plans to develop a totally renewable energy source to power the VVS1. It is seen as a way to literally fulfil Richard Branson’s philosophy of screwing business as usual."

    Their "patented carbon-carbon materials" may infringe on our nanocar IP from 2004, but Google Racing is the one to watch here…

  6. sweet , Happy April Fool 🙂 !

  7. when you are done, does it have a button for ‘self cleaning’ ?

    also, the threads need to be changed if you use this on the other side of the equator. I bet they forgot about that, didn’t they?

  8. It looks like it does not have reverse gear, so you have to go through the core anyway 😉

  9. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/78606082@N04] once you get it in far enough you just stop.

    then you simply pull the cork out.

    none of that involves any kind of ‘core’. you must be thinking of the next apple ‘me too’ product, which is, no doubt, under development.

  10. Jules Verne
    A Journey to the Center of the Earth (Voyage au centre de la Terre, 1864)
    From the Earth to the Moon (De la Terre à la Lune, 1865)
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, 1870)
    If we make it to the inner core, are we ready for the Sun?
    " It is believed the inner core consists of an iron–nickel alloy, and may have a temperature similar to the Sun’s surface, approximately 5700 K (5430 °C)."

  11. actually, the TSA has the new patent on (cough) ‘screwing the traveller’. lol

  12. a dig at Scots and kilts….
    sad

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