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OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation

www.businessinsider.com

Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.

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Lol the imploding submarine guy wants to send people to live in sulphuric acid.
Yeah. Ok.
- It seems like a brilliant idea to me! He and 999 of his rich buddies should definitely aim for visiting Venus.
"Wait, wait, hear me out. Carbon. Fiber."
- He literally is quoted as saying that after the Titan implosion. In the article:
  "Söhnlein said the Titan passengers' deaths shouldn't stop humans from continuing to investigate carbon fiber hulled submersibles as a way to reach the bottom of the ocean."
  
  🤦‍♀️
"We have imploded enough, it is time to explode!"
Luckily, unlike with submarines, the FAA do actually regulate space launches.
That's gonna be one hell of an expensive and futile rescue operation...
- Are we going to have to feign concern and sadness over the rich people who go missing in space?
  
  I think we’re on a downward trend on giving a shit about rich people. So, probably not.
Until humanity is mature enough to stop exploiting, poisoing, and destroying everything in our path it seems best that we quarantine on Earth imo. There is so much possibility down here as soon as we stop trying to run away from home and we bloom where we're planted instead.
- Well Venus already has a runaway greenhouse gas problem, so we're ok there.
Why Venus? Why not Mars where it's a tad more hospitable? Plus throw in a trip to see the rovers
- There's a region of Venus that's not horrible. It's basically a band in the atmosphere where the ambient temperature and pressure is relatively Earth-like, so one can arguably be outside with just an oxygen mask.
  Never mind that a long lasting floating habitat has not been built on Earth, much less thirty million miles away.
  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161019-the-amazing-cloud-cities-we-could-build-on-venus
  
  I would love to think he put that much thought into it, but my gut says he just vomited at the mouth
- Not enough challenges!
Well they can’t even get 3500m to the ocean floor. You think they can get people to Venus? Lmao absolutely not.
i don't understand. of all the people to give a platform to, why this guy? surely there's better business people to interview lol
There’s already an album about how terrible of an idea this is.
Infest the Rat's Nest
- Seems like a lot of people on here know about KGATLW. Wonder if it's just here, or if they're just getting more famous worldwide
If a space station could be designed to withstand the sulfuric acid in the clouds...
If...IF...
I mean, sulfuric acid is no joke. It eats away clothing, metal; it heats up when it gets wet. The only way you can effectively neutralize it is with soda ash. You just don't design something that's going to survive that for the long-term, and have to send it through space as well. I wouldn't step one foot into anything this man's company makes after the Titan.
Obligatory, "Not you Guillermo."
Jupiter submarine would melt, says XKCD
Obviously carbon fiber is dangerous. Let's make rockets out of solid steel.
- I think it's a lot of fun that these companies are developing ICBMs under the guise of space programs.
  
  As is tradition
  "Once the rockets are up, Who cares where they come down? That's not my department," Says Wernher von Braun.
  
  This is the entire history of all space programs since the 50s.
Last time I checked when I was a kid, pretty sure I remember Venus being one of the very last places humans would flourish in.
If his company is cutting corners dropping to the sea floor who is going to follow him to another planet?
People who lead empty lives would like to think that they have become something special by attempting to do for themselves what everyone else considers difficult. Stop climate change.

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