The CEO of OceanGate is now in charge of attempts to send humans to Venus. Guillermo Sohnlein told Insider that he is convinced his new organization would be able to host a floating colony of 1,000 inhabitants on the hottest planet in the solar system by 2050. Mr. Sohnlein co-founded OceanGate in 2009 with Stockton Rush but left the company in 2013. A submarine operated by Mr. Rush’s company went missing in mid-June and later imploded while on its route to the Titanic debris.
Humans 2 Venus is presently led by Mr Sohnlein. And how the concept involves constructing a floating settlement on Earth’s twin that can endure sulphuric acid storms, one of the many problems that render Venus uninhabitable. “Forget OceanGate. Forget Titan. And 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,” Mr Sohnlein told Insider.
Recent events have not diminished his ambition, and he believes humanity must continue to push the boundaries of creativity. “It is aspirational, but I think it’s also very doable by 2050,” Mr Sohnlein further told the outlet.
The lack of Scientific details raises concerns about the proposed Venus Colony
His argument is based on NASA data that reveals a sliver of Venus’s atmosphere around 30 miles from the surface where humans may theoretically exist. Mr. Sohnlein, on the other hand, has not provided any information on how the proposed colony would deal with the hurricane-force winds that are also a feature of Venus, according to the same NASA research.
Mr. Sohnlein stated in a blog post published on the Humans2Venus website in February, “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.” He further said space travel is his childhood dream. “I have spent the more than four decades since then doing whatever I could to help humanity become a multi-planet species,” Mr Sohnlein wrote in the blog.