As long as they limit the passengers to people with a net worth of 100 million or higher, then I think this should be encouraged.
It’s not gonna implode, is it?
“How many atmospheres can this thing withstand?”
The one. On the outside. And it is mandatory as well.
“Well it’s a spaceship, so anywhere between zero and 1.”
You know what the problem with space travel is?
Every ‘what if’ question is answered with ‘you die.’
What if there’s a leak in the spacecraft? What if we run out of food? What if we veer off course? What if the thrusters fail? etc.
I highly doubt and I’ll put $100 down that this doesn’t happen in 2050 because the difficulties and infrastructure just aren’t there for 1000 or even 100 people to do this.
Ok, but 2025 is over 25 years away. If he can get people to sign on then he can get some money coming in, and he’ll be a billionaire running away to Brazil long before 2050. It seems to me that his plan is solid.
… You know what, that’s an excellent idea.
Hey do you want to go to live on Mars? I have a solid plan and you can put a downpayment right now to secure your seat! Hurry, only 3 spots remaining!
Sorry, you’ve got to come up with something unique. You can’t just copy Mars One. At least pick a new planet! (It sounds like Venus is taken now as well, you snooze you lose)
Ah sheeit, well if we can’t go up then we must go down! Journey to the centre of the earth where it’s probably going to be colder than up here in 25 years!
Now you’re talking! Where can I sign up? I have more money than sense so I’d be willing to throw a few hundred thousand for a ticket, or even a million if you’ll put me on the first trip!
Jules Verne already went there, durr. It’s where the dinosaurs migrated to! Wait… Dino safari?
(you guys are hilarious)It’s called Agartha bro
I mean, not every what if, some at least leave the possibility to address the situation, consider the case of Apollo 13 for example. A great many risks can also be reduced with redundancy, for example, having your maneuvering systems fail is not as bad if your craft has an extra set of maneuvering thrusters. Air travel has similarly high risk of death if major components fail, and yet that has been made safe enough to be made commonplace.
I agree that it won’t happen by 2050 though. We’ve never sent humans on an interplanetary mission before, development of new spacecraft takes many years, especially manned systems, and Venus is an especially tough environment to build for. 2050 is less than three decades away, I’d guess that we might have at most a small research outpost on the moon by then, assuming no major delays or cuts to our current program to return there, and there’s no guarantee of that. I’d be surprised if even one person was sent to Venus by that year.
Can we pick the 1,000 people? I’ve got a few I’d like to send to Venus.
I respect the attempt to capitalise on a tragedy. Or possibly I’m disgusted by it. Either way.
OcanGate must be controlled by anarchist lizard people, posing themselves as being millionaires, with a secret plan to kill all of earth’s rich people.
Oh, I’m sure after what happened to the submersible that they’ll have volunteers lining up around the block for a space flight.
/s
Why Venus? Because Mars was somehow taken?
Isn’t that the planet that is hotter than the planet that sits closer to the sun, has incredibly high atmospheric pressure and something that is not water rains from the skies?
Seems like a paradise, if we’re considering using a nearby planet as a toxic waste dump.
click/rage bait
Gotta love rich people trying to make their personal space kingdom instead of fixing the mess they made down here.I call dibs on the joypad. Don’t worry, I’m decedent at Gran Turismo.
yea… at least mars has the potential of people being able to walk on the surface (with spacesuits).
Venus… Well. It’s pretty deadly. Its like the Australia of planets. Everything will kill you.
Deadly winds. Acid rain. Scorching hot.
Isn’t, too many positive traits…
Ahh yeah the yearly “who can say bigger bullshit than Elon Musk” competition. The rally is strong this year
If you go to Mars you can land and explored all possibilities inherent to being on the ground (including, most importantly, using the water ice from the south pole).
Venus on the other hand is a ball of rock wrapped in a dense and hot acid soup: you’de have to beat way worse technical challenges for, maybe, being able to locally extract from the athmosphere chemical compounds which you can just as easilly make on Earth (it’s mostly CO2 and sulfuric acid, though apparently it has 20 ppm of water).
It would make more sense to just have a moon base.
This is a scam.
I don’t wanna defend the guy but he did say floating colony, the atmosphere about 1 km up from the surface sits at earthlike temperatures and pressures-- astronauts would only need a breathing mask and some light skin protection as opposed to a pressure suit which is a major advantage.
May be a silly question, but how would you go about making a floating colony? I dont think we have the tech to keep a city perpetually floating.
