OceanGate co-founder now planning expeditions to Venus

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Guillermo Söhnlein, co-founder of the company OceanGate Expeditions, confirmed that the consecration of a colony of humans living on Venus is still planned. The Humans2Venus Foundation that he created together with businessman Khalid Al-Ali, will continue despite the recent failure of his submersible 'Titan' in the sea off Newfoundland.

In an interview with Business Insider , Söhnlein spoke about his contr Phone Number List oversial plan. By 2050, he says, a community of a thousand humans will live on the second planet closest to the Sun. The businessman accepts that it is a risky idea that will hardly be accepted by the scientific community. There are more attractive and specific sites for the establishment of human colonies. Mars, the Moon, and Titan, Saturn's moon, are destinations with exploitable natural resources, for example.

The expedition to Venus is idealistic in nature and appeals to humanity's feeling of adventure. The scientific challenge that the trip entails and the technological innovations that would emerge to successfully reach the goal, argues Guillermo Söhnlein, are sufficient justifications to execute the plan. The foundation's official site summarizes the ambitious feat in one sentence: “Why Venus? Maybe a better question would be, “Why not?”

Undated photo of the Titan tourist submersible
The last 96 hours of the Titan submersible
The missing OceanGate submersible sparked a frantic rescue effort and brought to light safety issues that had been raised years before.
Venus is located 61 million kilometers from Earth, at its closest point. At night, it is the brightest object in the sky, second only to the Moon. This occurs because the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid reflects the Sun's rays, as if it were a mirror . The average temperature of its surface is estimated at 463°C. It is so hot that the planet's metals would be in a liquid state.



The dense layer of gases that protects the planet has repercussions on the surface. It is estimated that the atmospheric pressure is comparable to 900 N/cm² or 90 times the Earth's atmosphere. Venus is not a friendly place for life as we know it.

All human-built probes that entered the Venusian atmosphere stopped working within a few hours. The technology we have sent succumbs to the high temperature, corrosiveness of the environment and the weight of the clouds. Despite everything, it has been discovered that Venus is a planet topographically similar to Earth and is a kind of twin that evolved incorrectly. Recently, the hypothesis has been raised and debated about the existence of primitive seas of water that disappeared as the Sun matured.