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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 (www.businessinsider.com)

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Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.

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[–] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The atmospheric pressure at the surface of Venus (the topic of the article) would be much worse than the bottom of any Earth ocean, so you better not let your floating Venus city accidentally succumb to gravity.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I am dumb, I somehow read Mars instead of Venus