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

JTode , 10 months ago

This one requires the laughing Mexican guy with the missing teeth. Anyone got that gif in a barrel?

jammnrose , 10 months ago

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GnomeKat , 10 months ago

that timeline is laughable…

26 years sounds like a long time… but time enough to set up a floating colony on venus??? yea no…

MyNameIsIgglePiggle , 10 months ago

I’d like to sign up Elon for the maiden voyage

rm_dash_r_star , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

1000 billionaires, sounds like a great plan. They did so well last time.

Getting the flotation is actually not that difficult in terms of engineering since Venus has a crazy thick atmosphere. Not hard to float a balloon at an altitude of a few Earth atmospheres. Problem is your life is dependent on the reliability of the floatation system. It would take a lot of attention to fail safe design. That OceanGate organization would be like “the wrong stuff”.

There’s other engineering challenges in colonizing Venus such as solar radiation. Venus has no magnetosphere to protect against ion radiation from the Sun and being closer it’s much more intense than Mars. Then you’d have to tether the balloon somehow, Venus has some strong vertical winds. That’s going to be like thirty miles of cable to the scalding 900F surface. Venus has clouds of sulfuric acid so that’s going to present a materials challenge. It’s a tough sell, greatly easier to colonize Mars.

It’s like when Elon started blowing smoke about colonizing the moons of Jupiter. If not already aware, Jupiter emits the most radiation of any solar body second only to the Sun. The moons around Jupiter are seriously toxic to human life. They can’t even get a probe to last more than a year around Jupiter due to radiation exposure, let alone a manned spacecraft.

Callie , 10 months ago

And I’m sure safety checks will be done to ensure the safety of everyone on board!

Fr tho, pls send more billionaires

Buddahriffic , 10 months ago

VenusGate: Uh, spaceguard? We lost contact with the Venus colony several weeks ago. They’ve got 2 months of air so they might still be alive. Though we did learn from the last time and didn’t bolt the windows shut in case they made it back to Earth on their own and needed to get out. The CEO did complain about the smell of farts increasing and the last communication said they were able to get a few open to air out the place, so we know they work.

NASA: Spaceguard isn’t a thing. Also the bolts weren’t the problem last time, it was the complete structural failure. Opening some windows probably allowed the pressure to equalize, which caused the vessel to drop into the “everything melts” zone. They are dead.

VenusGate: So you won’t be sending anyone out to look for them?

NASA: No.

sherlockandghibli , 10 months ago

on a carbon fiber hot air ballon

spiderman , 10 months ago

so, will they use the same type of controller for this mission or update it?

Omgpwnies , 10 months ago

Well, budget’s tight given recent events, all they can afford is the MadCatz now.

HurlingDurling , 10 months ago

1000 of the richest people? Sure, go for it

Caligvla , 10 months ago

This guy might actually be in our best interests!

Mikekm , 10 months ago

Science and innovation can only move forward with heaps of dead bodies!

Techmaster , 10 months ago

Sounds like a good start!

Holyginz , 10 months ago

Soo I know I’m not in the slightest the target audience for his shit. But I can say there’s no way in hell I would ever trust a vessel from that company going forward.

pancakes , 10 months ago

But you see, it’ll be rebranded as “VenusGate”, a completely different company that you can trust.

edgarallenpwn , 10 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2eb80a39-7771-4f34-82f9-4c727ea1a2f9.jpeg

Kyoyeou , 10 months ago

So which social media platform will he buy

cooopsspace , 10 months ago

Freedumb of speech huduuuuur

FireWire400 , 10 months ago

There is one Planet V, I guess?

eupraxia , 10 months ago

I heard there’s a holy yellow sky / Just make sure you close your eyes

Spellblade , 10 months ago

Oh boy here we go again! Be sure to make the ticket price like 10 million dollars, please.

Thorny_Thicket , 10 months ago

If they’re volunteers that are aware of the risks then go for it.

blastofffox , 10 months ago

[*] implosion
[] explosion

NatoBoram , 10 months ago

• [x] implosion
• [ ] explosion

CookieJarObserver , 10 months ago

They just want to kill rich people…