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.

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.

  • @Drewsteau
    16•2 years ago

    He should make himself a space ship and be the first one to go there!

      • fraksken
        6•2 years ago

        That could solve a lot of immediate problems, wouldn’t it? The CO2 reduction impact would be real in one fell swoop.

  • HotDogFingies
    8•2 years ago

    Why Venus? It’s completely uninhabitable. I learned that when I was probably around 6 years old. Billionaires need to stop considering themselves scientists just because they can pay people to make them look smart

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      Venus has some things going for it, like a relatively earth-like gravity of 8,87 m/s² (about 90% of earths) , an atmosphere blocking radiation and being relatively close to earth . The proposed colony would float in a part of the atmosphere that is less hot and dense than the surface. It still wouldn’t be very useful, you can’t utilise the resources on the surface. And it would be obviously very risky.

  • @dreadedsemi
    5•2 years ago

    His mom: we have Venus at home.

    Venus at home: hottest places on earth.

  • @[email protected]
    4•2 years ago

    To be fair atmospheric pressure on Mars will be far more forgiving to their submarine than bottom of the ocean.

    • @[email protected]
      0•2 years ago

      The atmospheric pressure at the surface of Venus (the topic of the article) would be much worse than the bottom of any Earth ocean, so you better not let your floating Venus city accidentally succumb to gravity.

  • DarkThoughts
    2•2 years ago

    Can’t even safely reach the titanic and wants to go to a literal hellhole of a planet that has absolutely no benefit for humanity.

    • milkytoast
      1•2 years ago

      wdym no benefit to humanity? if he takes a few of his billionaire friends with him, the world becomes a slightly better place overnight!

  • livus
    1•2 years ago

    OceanGate

    Yikes I don’t know what this name reminds me of more, Watergate the scandal or Heaven’s Gate the death cult.