{"id":242869,"date":"2023-08-04T04:26:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T08:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=301285"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:32:49","slug":"the-co-creator-of-the-submarine-that-blew-up-looking-for-the-titanic-now-wants-to-send-people-to-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-co-creator-of-the-submarine-that-blew-up-looking-for-the-titanic-now-wants-to-send-people-to-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"From Titanic Quest to Venus Venture: Co-Creator of Submarine that Explored Titanic Sets Sights on New Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Millionaires, for some reason, feel lately compelled to build giant rockets and send humanity packing<\/strong>. Elon Musk<\/a> wants to send a million people to Mars, Jeffrey Bezos wants to establish an industrial base in space, and Richard Branson aims to lead galactic tourism. While they play at being NASA, a new contender enters. And it doesn’t inspire much confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Soon, the Mecano song that said “D\u00e9jalo ya, sabes que nunca has ido a Venus en un barco” (“Stop it now, you know you’ve never been to Venus on a boat”) might transition from surrealism to reality, thanks to Guillermo S\u00f6hnlein, a millionaire who wants to venture into the space race. You may know him better as one of the two founders of OceanGate<\/a> and, therefore, Tit\u00e1n. Yes, that’s right, the vessel designed to explore the Titanic, which imploded upon itself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To his credit, it’s been ten years since he left that project, but it’s not the best introduction. And even less so when he announces his new plan to establish a colony of a thousand people on Venus<\/a> by the year 2050. If Venus is known as “the evil twin of Earth,” <\/strong>there’s a reason for it, Guille. Visiting anything malevolent doesn’t sound appealing (let alone living there).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, with sulfuric acid rains, and atmospheric pressure 90 times that of Earth<\/a><\/strong>. However, our friend doesn’t see a reason why we shouldn’t give it a try: there’s a 48-kilometer area on the surface where apparently humans could survive. Oh, well! 48 kilometers! That changes everything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan involves building a space station to shield against sulfuric acid in the clouds. If that happens, he says hundreds of thousands of people could establish a new Venusian civilization. In an interview with Business Insider (not Venus Insider), he ends by saying, “I have the recurring dream of being the commander of the first Martian<\/a> colony.” Coming from the creator of the imploded submarine, we trust everything he has to tell us wholeheartedly. Let’s go to Venus tomorrow; I’ll pack my suitcase!<\/p>\n\n\n

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If he is known as “Earth’s evil brother” it is for a reason. You don’t want, a priori, to go to anything evil to visit (much less live there).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":242871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[4289,4584,3892],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-242869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionnasa-app","tag-oceangate","tag-venus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318731,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242869\/revisions\/318731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242869"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=242869"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=242869"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=242869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}