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[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.”

[Mecca]

Are they killing more rich people?

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Send the San Francisco shoplifters.

[Gary Cooper]

Isaac Asimov wrote some stories set on Venus. It's possible with the right equipment (that we don't have).

[Ming the Merciless]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

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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

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[Katipan]

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[Easy 6]

Can we just lock up all these mad scientists before they murder someone else, please?

[Spott]

Originally Posted by MarkDavis'Haircut

Send the San Francisco shoplifters.

Send the Denver Broncos.

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Originally Posted by Spott

Send the Denver Broncos.

With Mark Davis as the pilot.

[Ming the Merciless]

Originally Posted by 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

LOL. I cant imagine this guy going "hey we had a catastrophic failure under water, lets try SPACE!!!"


would love to be at some of the meetings

[kcgreene]

Obvious humor aside...

Theoretically you could change Venus' atmosphere by scraping gasses and/or creating a huge solar shield to terraform into a livable planet (which would be great considering its gravity is about 91% of Earth's so gravitational effects on bones and such wouldn't be as problematic as with the moon, space stations, or Mars). The problem is that it would take centuries of continual work to do, and way too much money.

An interesting and curious thought though nonetheless. I hope one day mankind is self sustainably living on other planets. It's the only way to guarantee the survival of the only known sentience in the universe.

[lewdog]

If the Earth is 6,000 years old, how old is Venus?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by kcgreene

Obvious humor aside...

Theoretically you could change Venus' atmosphere by scraping gasses and/or creating a huge solar shield to terraform into a livable planet (which would be great considering its gravity is about 91% of Earth's so gravitational effects on bones and such wouldn't be as problematic as with the moon, space stations, or Mars). The problem is that it would take centuries of continual work to do, and way too much money.

An interesting and curious thought though nonetheless. I hope one day mankind is self sustainably living on other planets. It's the only way to guarantee the survival of the only known sentience in the universe.

Many years ago, I read an article about a plan to terraform Venus using some sort of bacteria or algae or something. Apparently this organism likes to eat the stuff that's currently in Venus' atmosphere and then it belts out the waste as something that doesn't trap heat as much. I don't remember the details, but either it spit out oxygen, or you do another phase with a different organism that takes in CO and spits out O2. The author was arguing that you could terraform Venus pretty inexpensively by dumping some of this stuff into the upper atmosphere and then waiting a hundred years. I was intrigued.

[Kiimo]

Originally Posted by lewdog

If the Earth is 6,000 years old, how old is Venus?

Venus isn't real it was put there around 5k years ago to test your faith.

[kcgreene]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Many years ago, I read an article about a plan to terraform Venus using some sort of bacteria or algae or something. Apparently this organism likes to eat the stuff that's currently in Venus' atmosphere and then it belts out the waste as something that doesn't trap heat as much. I don't remember the details, but either it spit out oxygen, or you do another phase with a different organism that takes in CO and spits out O2. The author was arguing that you could terraform Venus pretty inexpensively by dumping some of this stuff into the upper atmosphere and then waiting a hundred years. I was intrigued.

Interesting. I've never heard of this. I'll have to do some digging and see what I can find on this. Of course, whatever lives there has to be able to survive at like 900 degrees Fahrenheit, so it'll have to be some really resilient (probably bio-engineered) bacteria!

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by kcgreene

Interesting. I've never heard of this. I'll have to do some digging and see what I can find on this. Of course, whatever lives there has to be able to survive at like 900 degrees Fahrenheit, so it'll have to be some really resilient (probably bio-engineered) bacteria!

This article from a website I've never heard of references the idea as being proposed by Carl Sagan in 1961, but says that barriers have been identified that make it impossible. Darn it. The proposal offers some other methods, but they aren't as easy as a fire-and-forget organic solution.

https://interestingengineering.com/s...erraform-venus