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
https://archive.is/AyosK
this lends credence to the stealth comrade theory, btw
Make the space station out of carbon fiber too. I'm sure everything will be fine!
the Venera probes failed because they were sent up by commies, our captains of industry will effortlessly outshine their Marxist works
In all seriousness, I've heard this idea before in SF-adjacent circles; the point is that a gas mixture that resembles Earth's atmosphere is buoyant on Venus at an altitude where the pressure is around 1 Earth's atmosphere.
Now, actually living there, suspended over some hot hellscape in a machine built by these guys of all options... lol. Lmao, even.
is stealth comrade theory a thing? I googled it and the only result is your thread on masto *removed externally hosted image*
I probably coined it, in response to the theory that Stockton Rush (what a Rand-ass name) was actually a comrade trying to reduce our count of billionaires
