Guillermo Söhnlein, one of the founders of the OceanGate company, may have a new plan that has shocked the world. Just a few weeks ago, five people aboard the Titan submersible of that company lost their lives when they were on their way to visit the remains of the Titanic.
Now, Söhnlein is thinking of taking a thousand people to live in the atmosphere of Venus. The project envisages that this trip will become a reality in the year 2050. Despite the tragedy of the submersible, the entrepreneur is convinced that he cannot stop. “I think this is less aspirational than putting a million people on the surface of Mars by 2050,” he said in an interview for Business Insider.
OceanGate: Why Does One of Its Founders Want to Take People to Venus?
Söhnlein acknowledges that this new task is a historic challenge. “You’re absolutely right about the fact that when you talk about going to Venus it can cause controversy outside the space industry. There are even people who think twice about it within the space industry.”
Despite the extreme conditions of Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system, the entrepreneur and founder of OceanGate thinks that the goal can be achieved. This is due to research that points to a gap 30 kilometers from the surface where humans could survive because temperatures are lower.
Therefore, the idea would be to build a kind of space station that supports the sulfuric acid of the clouds allowing them to live in the atmosphere of Venus. This “floating” colony could house a thousand people.
OceanGate: What Did the People in the Submersible Die From?
A few weeks ago, the wreckage of the OceanGate company’s device was found by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) operated by the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic. It was subsequently determined by experts to be “consistent with a catastrophic implosion,” meaning a rupture and sinking caused by increased pressure from the outside.
Rear Admiral John Mauger of the U.S. Coast Guard said that the bodies of the five people have not been found and, although there is no longer hope of finding them alive, what did happen was the recovery of the wreckage to explain what happened with certainty. Through the debris, specialists are investigating when the implosion took place and also what were the causes of the accident.
This story was written in Spanish by Miguel Fernández in Cultura Colectiva News
