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Guillermo Söhnlein has been unexpectedly thrust into the limelight in the wake of the Titan submersible tragedy.

The cofounder of OceanGate Expeditions has been grappling with questions about the company's ill-fated trip to the Titanic shipwreck on June 18, which killed five people, including former colleague and friend Stockton Rush.

The sub is thought to have imploded within hours of its descent, raising concerns about OceanGate's approach to innovation and safety.

But OceanGate is not Söhnlein's only venture. The businessman's latest — and possibly grandest — endeavor is to send 1,000 humans to live in Venus' atmosphere by 2050. Söhnlein hasn't let the recent events dampen his ambition and claims humanity needs to continue pushing the limits of innovation.

  • UlyssesT
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    22 days ago

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    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      So much space travel shit is undermined by the fact it's much easier and arguably more useful to do it on Earth (or at most in LEO/Lunar/Lagrange and we don't.)

      • UlyssesT
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        22 days ago

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        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          There are the seasteaders, which are looked on as cranks even by moderate Bazingas but somehow extrapolating it to SPPPPAAAAAACCCE! Shuts down critical thinking.

          • UlyssesT
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            • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              Look, don't you get it, you just need a big styrofoam sphere with a window, you can grow potatoes, and if those filthy earth people launch a missile at you you can simply move out of the way!

              No joke, I have actually, unironically had a fucking "spacesteader" argue those exact points some 15 years ago. It's like the American civic cult's worship of "homesteading" settler colonialism happened to outcompete their other brainworms to become the biggest, fattest worm in their brain and just ran away down the track of "can't do it on land, cause the land's all enclosed. can't do it on the sea, cause someone can get you there. I know, what about space? No one can get you there!"

              And of course one can only assume that what they're afraid of being gotten for is some libertarian-alert shit.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      tbf it was pretty cool on that one King Gizz album, even though it seems to last less than 20 seconds before the survivors conclude that Hell is preferable and change planes.