After the ill-fated Titanic submersible, OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein is now aiming to send 1,000 humans to live in Venus’ atmosphere by 2050, a Business Insider has reported. He added that his goal of humans living in Venus is not just not motivational but aspirational. “It is aspirational, but I think it’s also very doable by 2050,” Sohnlein told Business Insider.
Despite the death of Titan passengers, Sohnlein said that this should not stop humans, further adding that humanity must push the limits of innovation, the report added.
His aim to send humans to Venus is not part of OceanGate, but his another company Humans2Venus of which he is a Founder and Chairman. The company founded in 2020 focusses on “establishing a permanent human presence in the Venusian atmosphere.” The other two members of the company are Dr. Khalid M. Al-Ali who is Co-Founder & Board of Directors while Rohith Muhundan who is Executive Director.
“Forget OceanGate. Forget Titan. Forget Stockton. Humanity could be on the verge of a big breakthrough and not take advantage of it because we, as a species, are gonna get shut down and pushed back into the status quo,” he said as quoted the daily.
Speaking of how human can live on Venus, Sohnlein cited research which suggested that there is a silver of Venus atmosphere where humans may potentially exist which is some 30 miles above the planet’s surface, where temperatures are lower and pressure is lower, Business Insider reported.
The website of the Humans2Venus also states its four reasons: gravity which is is almost identical to earth; temperature which it states that is in the favourable ‘liquid water’ range of 0-50°C. Furthermore, the website states that radiation protection is similar to Earth and Pressure which is approximately 1 bar / 1 ATM almost identical to Earth at sea level. Stating it’s downsides, it states that the atmosphere in Venus is primarily carbon dioxide, and the clouds are mostly sulfuric acid.
OceanGate, the company which owned the Titan submersible that imploded during a dive to the titanic wreckage and killed all the five people on board including the firm’s CEO Stockton Rush has suspended its exploration and commercial operations, the company’s website states.
