After Titanic, OceanGate cofounder aims to send people to Venus
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Guillermo Sohnlein, who is the co-founder of OceanGate, said in an interview that the company now aims to send people to planet Venus by the year 2050, just weeks after the company's expedition to the sunken Titanic ship ended in five deaths.
The US-based OceanGate's submersible met with a catastrophic implosion that killed all five on board when it was on a voyage to see the century-old wreck of the Titanic in June.
Those who lost their lives were the company's CEO Stockton Rush, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, UK businessman Hamish Harding, and submersible captain Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
In an interview with Insider, Sohnlein, who is also the founder and chairman of Humans2Venus, said that he is hopeful his new company can host a colony of 1,000 humans on Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system.
He said, "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."
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Sohnlein added, "[Sending humans to Venus] ... it is aspirational, but I think it's also very doable by 2050."
Sohnlein co-founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush in 2009 and handed over the control of the company in 2013.
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He mentioned the latest results by NASA, which indicate that humans might exist in a portion of Venus's atmosphere 30 miles above the surface.
In a report by Space.com, it was mentioned that according to NASA, Venus has a very toxic atmosphere filled with carbon dioxide. The report noted that it is permanently "shrouded in thick, yellowish clouds of sulfuric acid that trap heat, causing a runaway greenhouse effect". Experts say that it would be nearly impossible for humans to live on Venus.
An entry by Sohnlein on on the Humans2Venus website read: "When it came to imagining a permanent home for humanity away from Earth, one challenge always bothered me."
"I am not an engineer or a scientist, but I have ultimate faith in the abilities of both. Therefore, I always figured that they would be able to overcome the myriad challenges facing us in the extreme environment of space: radiation, temperature, pressure, food, water, breathable air, etc. All of these could be overcome," it added.
Titan submersible expedition
The submersible accident raised questions about the unregulated nature of such expeditions as experts across the world asked why private parties ignore safety checks during risky adventure trips.
Reports also mentioned that the company had not got a safety audit committed by a third party. Some experts have highlighted that the scope of survival was low even if a small thing went wrong.
(With inputs from agencies)
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