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.
I'm all for pushing the limits of innovation when it comes to seeing that the wealthy suffer untimely ends.
Please bourgeois, take this man up on his offer it's incredibly safe!
With the incredible leaps of modern technology, in the future, the rich will guillotine themselves!
Marx failed to consider that instead of selling the rope used to hang it, the bourgeoisie might just hang itself
1000 billionaires crashing and burning on Venus would be incredbile, yes please do it as soon as possible.
Tfw the billionaires keep coming up with more creative ideas for debillionairization than us
As long as each of those 1,000 people have a net worth above 10 million then I'm fine with that, let's send the rich to interstellar gulags disguised as scientific projects
Send a bunch of billionaires to Venus in a modified weiner mobile operated by a crane game joystick
Unironically a crane game joystick would probably be better than that Logitech controller because it's probably designed and tested to higher durability standards.
if innovation continues at current rates, we could be imploding billionaires by the busload soon!
We're reaching levels of bazinga thought previously impossible
A thousand billionaires on Venus. I see zero issues with this plan. The clouds of sulfuric acid, constant Cat5 hurricane-force winds at the 60-70km altitude where the temperature is -27 to +70 degrees Celsius (who the fuck considers +70 Celsius livable, but whatever) and the inevitability of a giant Whoope Cushion going down and doing the "Fleshlight Submarine Captain Crunch" at quite literally "over 9000 kPa" density, then burned and dissolved by +500 degrees Celsius acid, lmao
A staggeringly unfeasible idea. 25 years to send 1000 people to live on Venus, a planet where the surface temperature is hot enough to melt lead.
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.)
There are the seasteaders, which are looked on as cranks even by moderate Bazingas but somehow extrapolating it to SPPPPAAAAAACCCE! Shuts down critical thinking.
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
shit.
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.
Venus is the poster child for Global Warming. The reptilian CEOs have posters of it in their jack off shrine.
Once again dipshits coming up with nonsense.
We should simply put a bunch of solar shields, reflectors, or solar panels at Venus' L1 point to cool the atmosphere and then precipitate the CO2 into limestone rocks using magnesium and calcium.
Or we could mine some of the Venusian atmosphere and bring it to Mars.
If you wanna do a big space boondoggle, spend your money putting a big fuckoff magnet at Mars' L1 point and give it a magnetosphere.
We should simply put a bunch of solar shields, reflectors, or solar panels at Venus' L1 point to cool the atmosphere and then precipitate the CO2 into limestone rocks using magnesium and calcium.
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:
- It is extremely risky; we have no idea of any potential unforeseen consequences (on plant life for example)
- It would most likely require constant adjustments and regular refueling; if society collapses even for a short while (decades), it's game over
- More importantly: it does absolutely fuck all to counter the other effects of increased CO2, such as ocean acidification (which is by itself enough to collapse vast swathes of the biosphere)
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.
I tried to buy it, but the swamp wouldn't let me. Would have been a best most perfect deal like Alaska. Why do you think Greedland wants independece from Denmark. They're smart. They know what they have. I wouldn't have let it go either.
What a coincidence, I too want to send OceanGate's cofounder and 1,000 billionaires to Venus
At least SpaceX has to meet engineering and safety standards for legitimate companies and government agencies to book launches. Despite the name of the ass who mostly owns them, they're not remotely in the same category as Virgin Galactic or Ocean Gate.
I, for one, only object to the deadline being so far in the future. They should try sending hundreds of capitalists into Venus tomorrow. Climate control? Just innovate it!
Anyone rich and wanting to go to Venus should be sent there. All we need is a rocket.
