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.
if these people have had the ability to cool down a planet this whole time what the fuck guys
From what I've seen, ballpark figures for the cost to launch enough shit at Earth's L1 point to reduce the sunlight hitting the Earth by 1% put the entire project in the single digit percents of the US's annual military budget. The whole thing is entirely materially possible for comparatively little, it's just that it's a bad enough idea that no one who wants to stop global warming wants to risk it, and everyone recklessly stupid enough to do it doesn't want to get in the way of the democide global warming will cause.
I'm half convinced that their plan is literally to keep the pedal on the gas until climate change has rendered vast swathes of the periphery uninhabitable and killed billions, and then launch solar shields to stabilize the situation for themselves. It makes me think of how America immediately went all in on spreading covid as hard as possible once early studies suggested PoC had worse outcomes from it, even as the ruling class tried to keep itself insulated (a task it failed out of sheer malevolent stupidity). The ruling class of the imperial hegemon is a white supremacist death cult who are actively, eagerly making things worse while their priests promise them that technology can save them in the eleventh hour.
While a solar shield at L1 would potentially help with direct warming:
Here's the plan: Let global warming melt Greenland and then take all the gold and precious metals from under the icecap. Screw the other apocalyptic consequences.