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

https://archive.is/AyosK

this lends credence to the stealth comrade theory, btw

  • DreamySweet
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    1011 months ago

    Make the space station out of carbon fiber too. I’m sure everything will be fine!

    • David GerardOPMA
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      1111 months ago

      the Venera probes failed because they were sent up by commies, our captains of industry will effortlessly outshine their Marxist works

      • @kuna
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        • Charlie Stross
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          511 months ago

          @kuna Also note that at that altitude, the temperature in Venus’s stratosphere is a positively freezing 30 ℃ or so.

          The real problem is that Venus is short on hydrogen, so getting back up into orbit from the Venusian stratosphere … well, good luck with that.

          (It’d make a good platform for a crewed research station, but a lousy prospect for colonization.)