The OceanGeat submarine sparked much discussion about how it was controversially designed with basic materials, which many people said looked unsafe. As such, the company's cofounder has shared his thoughts about planning the next big venture, which is to create a space colony above Venus.
OceanGate Co-Founder's Plans
According to Futurism, the cofounder of OceanGate, Guillermo Söhnlein, has shared his plans for the future, detailing his next venture which aims to create a colony floating in space. The cofounder expects the project to happen by 2050 and involves 1,000 people living in space.
The announcement took place in an interview with Insider where the live cofounder of OceanGate shared his next venture. Söhnlein shared Humans2Venus with the public, describing how the plan was for the project to become the home for a thousand humans.
Söhnlein described the plans to make a floating colony above Venus, which is an extremely hot planet. NASA notes that surface temperatures could reach 900 °F which is far from the maximum temperature humans can handle.
The space agency also highlighted how its surface consisted of thick sulfur and unfavorable temperatures for human life. As noted by Live Science, human beings can only live in temperatures up to 95 °F.
The co-founder of OceanGate, an Argentina-born businessman, acknowledges the difficulties in accomplishing this but nonetheless says that it will be possible by 2050. Söhnlein also acknowledged that even in the space industry, the thought of going to Venus would raise eyebrows.
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OceanGate Titan Submersible
Futurism clarifies the involvement of Söhnlein in OceanGate, the company behind the Titan submersible which imploded near the actual Titanic with people inside dying due to implosion. The cofounder was the CEO of OceanGate until 2013 when he resigned.
Despite his exit, Söhnlein still had minority ownership even until the death of Stockton Rush, the CEO of the Titan submersible, who died in the implosion event. However, the cofounded had other thoughts about the incident, saying people should forget about OceanGate, the submersible, and even the dead CEO.
Söhnlein highlighted how the human species was going to "shut down" and that things needed to be done. Futurism reports that it's unclear what breakthrough technologies the cofounder might have to be able to withstand Venus' ultraviolet radiation for extended time periods.
CEO Stockton Rush
With regards to Stockton Rush, Söhnlein said that if it weren't for the now-dead CEO, people might still be living in "caves." People report that Rush was added to Wikipedia's list of the inventors who died at the hands of their own inventions.
The CEO died at age 61 and was listed as a pilot, engineer, and businessman. His name was placed after the actual Titanic naval architect, Thomas Andrews, who had died aboard the famed ship and whose body was also never found.
Rush was joined by five other passengers who died on the Titan submersible after it disappeared from sight on June 18.
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