Billionaires first.

1000 of the richest people? Sure, go for it

Err… Venus has one of the most hostile environments in the Solar System. A titanium probe can only survive there a few hours.

Dumb.

Only if I can drive the spaceship with a Logitech wireless controller.

Is this some kind of insanity plea to get him off the hook for any negligence claims?

1000 billionaires, sounds like a great plan. They did so well last time.

Getting the flotation is actually not that difficult in terms of engineering since Venus has a crazy thick atmosphere. Not hard to float a balloon at an altitude of a few Earth atmospheres. Problem is your life is dependent on the reliability of the floatation system. It would take a lot of attention to fail safe design. That OceanGate organization would be like "the wrong stuff".

There's other engineering challenges in colonizing Venus such as solar radiation. Venus has no magnetosphere to protect against ion radiation from the Sun and being closer it's much more intense than Mars. Then you'd have to tether the balloon somehow, Venus has some strong vertical winds. That's going to be like thirty miles of cable to the scalding 900F surface. Venus has clouds of sulfuric acid so that's going to present a materials challenge. It's a tough sell, greatly easier to colonize Mars.

It's like when Elon started blowing smoke about colonizing the moons of Jupiter. If not already aware, Jupiter emits the most radiation of any solar body second only to the Sun. The moons around Jupiter are seriously toxic to human life. They can't even get a probe to last more than a year around Jupiter due to radiation exposure, let alone a manned spacecraft.

Lets name that deathtrap titan too...

Soo I know I'm not in the slightest the target audience for his shit. But I can say there's no way in hell I would ever trust a vessel from that company going forward.

[*] implosion
[] explosion

This man can't even make a safe submarine

Isn’t that the company that made that crappy sub that imploded?? This man crazy thinking we would trust him with space travel!

They just want to kill rich people...

Yes, please go ahead.

I will even open a bottle of sparkling wine for the occasion!

Edit: btw, does anybody else have Nandor The Relentless‘ voice in their head whenever somebody is named Guillermo?

VenusGate: Uh, spaceguard? We lost contact with the Venus colony several weeks ago. They've got 2 months of air so they might still be alive. Though we did learn from the last time and didn't bolt the windows shut in case they made it back to Earth on their own and needed to get out. The CEO did complain about the smell of farts increasing and the last communication said they were able to get a few open to air out the place, so we know they work.

NASA: Spaceguard isn't a thing. Also the bolts weren't the problem last time, it was the complete structural failure. Opening some windows probably allowed the pressure to equalize, which caused the vessel to drop into the "everything melts" zone. They are dead.

VenusGate: So you won't be sending anyone out to look for them?

NASA: No.

that timeline is laughable...

26 years sounds like a long time... but time enough to set up a floating colony on venus??? yea no...

So which social media platform will he buy

For sustainable environment, the ships, habitats, and all applicable equipment will be made with safe, state-of-the-art recyclable plastics.

If only all billionaires would take care of themselves like this...

so, will they use the same type of controller for this mission or update it?

This one requires the laughing Mexican guy with the missing teeth. Anyone got that gif in a barrel?

Oh boy here we go again! Be sure to make the ticket price like 10 million dollars, please.

Easier to work with 0atm vs several thousand.

Rumor has it, they already got a name for the space ship: Challenge

doubt