Bad Idea? OceanGate Co-Founder Wants To Send 1,000 Humans To Venus On Floating Colony By 2050

The OceanGate Titan Sub tragedy is still fresh in public memory. The ill-fated trip to the Titanic shipwreck, which sunk into the crevices of the deep sea, ended up in the tragic death of the five passengers on it including the former co-founder of the company, Stockton Rush on June 18.

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While the internet has yet to process the ramifications of the spine-chilling incident, the safe and sound co-founder of OceanGate has issued his future aspirations. The co-founder¡¯s statement has left a rather sour taste in the public¡¯s mouth.

OceanGate Co-Founder Wants To Send 1,000 Humans To Venus By 2050

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Ever since the Titan submersible's tragedy hit the news headlines, Guillermo Sohnlein, the co-founder on land, was bombarded with questions and harangued for answers to the submersible's fate.

However, this time around, Sohlein is making the news for his new endeavour that aspires to send 1,000 humans to live in Venus¡¯ atmosphere by 2050. Sounds like another recipe for disaster? Well, not to Sohlein.

The co-founder has not let the recent events of the Titan submersible¡¯s failure dampen his ambition and says he wants humanity to continue pushing the limits of innovation. To him, the plans sound the least bit cuckoo, ¡°I think it is less aspirational than putting a million people on the Martian surface by 2050,¡± he told Insider.

Can Venus¡¯ Atmosphere Sustain Human Life?

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Although Venus is occasionally called ¡°Earth's twin,¡± it doesn¡¯t necessarily support human life. Even ambitious Sohlien agrees that his dream has been a controversy in the space industry, ¡°You're absolutely right that when you talk about going to Venus, it would raise eyebrows outside the space industry. And it even raises eyebrows inside the space industry.¡±

Even though Mercury is closer to the Sun, Venus is the warmest planet in the solar system. Its atmosphere is bursting with carbon dioxide, and its surface temperature could melt lead and there is an abundance of sulphuric rains in its atmosphere.

According to NASA, even its atmospheric pressure is enough to crush a human which is 90 times that of the Earth if the other elements don¡¯t already sound deadly enough.

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In spite of these well-known facts, Sohlein still wants to launch his idea. He points out that research suggests that there is a portion of the Venusian atmosphere about 30 miles from the surface that is theoretically habitable for humans. In this sliver of the planet, the temperature is said to be lower and the pressure is also less intense.

However, the OceanGate co-founder¡¯s aspirations are yet to have a concrete plan to support. As far as the internet is concerned, the idea is still just a dream.

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