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Guillermo Söhnlein, the co-founder of OceanGate, has announced his newest venture: Getting people to Venus by 2050.

It’s like the guy went looking for the next most inhospitable environment he could find after the crushing catastrophe that was the Titan submersible.

After that unfortunate event, Söhnlein seems to be setting his sights skyward, aiming to have 1 000 humans living on Venus by 2050 under his new company, Humans2Venus.

Apart from OceanGate, Guillermo is also the founder and chairman of Humans2Venus, which is a private venture that focuses on establishing a permanent human presence in the Venusian atmosphere.

Söhnlein believes Venus has potential despite its harsh conditions.

And the conditions on Venus are as bad as they come; Its atmosphere is choked with carbon dioxide, its surface temperature could melt lead, and sulfuric acid rains down from its clouds. Its atmospheric pressure is also crushing — more than 90 times that of Earth. It’s similar to the bottom of the ocean if the water was acid.

As per the BusinessInsider, Humans2Venus is expected to operate similarly to OceanGate as a ‘privately funded service provider for space operations to make exploration cheaper’.

“It’s all part of a grander plan”, says Söhnlein.

“I think I’ve been driven to help make humanity a multi-planet species since I was 11 years old,” he said.  “I had this recurring dream of being the commander of the first Martian colony,” he said.

To be fair, Venus has been visited before, even if it was by a probe. As is their current habit, Russia was the first to poke their noses into places they don’t belong, but the Venera landers lasted only a few moments until the crushing pressure and heat destroyed them.

Before their demise, they did manage to send some pics back, showing a barren landscape and a sky the colour of pee-pee.

As a mechanical engineer at Northeastern University puts it: “It’s basically like what I imagine Hell to look like.” So yeah, let’s send a thousand people there. Any volunteers?

If you like space stuff, you can check out this video that goes into the Venera missions a bit more. See it as the recruitment video Guillermo Söhnlein won’t be using.

Too soon Guillermo, too soon.

[source:news&businessinsider]