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
this lends credence to the stealth comrade theory, btw
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
this lends credence to the stealth comrade theory, btw
In all seriousness, I’ve heard this idea before in SF-adjacent circles; the point is that a gas mixture that resembles Earth’s atmosphere is buoyant on Venus at an altitude where the pressure is around 1 Earth’s atmosphere.
Now, actually living there, suspended over some hot hellscape in a machine built by these guys of all options… lol. Lmao, even.
@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.)