The Co-Founder of OceanGate wants to send 1000 people to venus!! Sign up info here

[Ming the Merciless]

The cofounder of OceanGate, the firm whose CEO died on a deep-sea dive for the Titanic, now wants to send 1,000 people to Venus





Guillermo Söhnlein, who cofounded OceanGate with the deceased Stockton Rush in 2009, has revealed plans to build a colony that will reside in the atmosphere of the planet Venus—and he’s looking for 1,000 people to live there.
Söhnlein left OceanGate in 2013, retaining a minority stake in the now-shuttered company. He has had a long-standing interest in space commercialization, however. And he’s approaching it with an aggressive timeline. He hopes to send those people to Venus by 2050.



That’s going to be tough. The surface temperature of Venus is 872° F, and the pressure is roughly the same as 3,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. A 2008 article in Universe Today, however, theorized that the area 50 kilometers above the planet could be more Earth-like and could potentially support a floating city. (You’d have to do something about the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere and lack of oxygen, though, it noted.)
Söhnlein is undeterred, though, telling Business Insider, “I think it is less aspirational than putting a million people on the Martian surface by 2050…I think it’s also very doable.” He did not detail how he planned to achieve this, however.
Attracting people to make that journey could be challenging following the OceanGate tragedy, which saw five people die. Söhnlein likes to invest in companies that push the envelope, though. The goal, he says, is to help humanity escape the boundaries of Earth.


Venus is the warmest planet in the solar system. Its atmosphere is chock-full of carbon dioxide, its surface temperature could melt lead, and sulfuric acid rains down from its clouds. Its atmospheric pressure is crushing — more than 90 times that of Earth, according to NASA.


“I think I’ve been driven to help make humanity a multi-planet species since I was 11 years old,” he said. “I had this recurring dream of being the commander of the first Martian colony…Forget OceanGate. Forget Titan. Forget Stockton. Humanity could be on the verge of a big breakthrough and not take advantage of it because we, as a species, are gonna get shut down and pushed back into the status quo.”

[Megatron96]

Beginning to think this guy isn't a failed explorer at all, but really a rich and imaginative serial killer . . .


P.S. I happen to have a few rolls of 'out of date' carbon fiber (black duct tape) in case he's short some

[Kiimo]

What could go wrong

[Cheater5]

[Kiimo]

Please control the spaceship with this








"have you tried pressing the red button???"

[BigRedChief]

**** that. I want to visit Uranus.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

**** that. I want to visit Uranus.

I'm hung like planet pluto
hard to see with the naked eye
but if i crashed into uranus
i would stick it where the sun don't shine
Im kinda like han solo
always stroking my own wookie
I'm the root of all evil
but you can call me cookie

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

**** that. I want to visit Uranus.

zTrip drops off at the GBS for a fraction of the price if you can get on Bill’s calendar

[DenverChief]

via GIPHY

[lewdog]

I nominate Prison Bitch.

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

I'm hung like planet pluto
hard to see with the naked eye
but if i crashed into uranus
i would stick it where the sun don't shine
Im kinda like han solo
always stroking my own wookie
I'm the root of all evil
but you can call me cookie

This was a very romantic song between myself and a man I saw for a summer.

[Rain Man]

I need more information before I can make a decision. Are these condos? Apartments? Single family floating space pods? What are the property taxes? Who handles maintenance? And are pets allowed?

[Ming the Merciless]

Originally Posted by Katipan

This was a very romantic song between myself and a man I saw for a summer.

im going to mic this up and sing it to you

[George Liquor]

Isn't venus like 400° and the atmosphere made of poison gas?

Oh i guess i could have read the OP lmao

[Kiimo]

My favorite part here is how they just have to figure out how to develop anti-gravity suspension fields first so the shit can float like Cloud City