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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)

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 points 2 years ago* (last edited 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.