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.
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.
Luckily, unlike with submarines, the FAA do actually regulate space launches.
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?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.
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!
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.”
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.
Jupiter submarine would melt, says XKCD
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.
