OceanGate’s cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn’t stop pushing the limits of innovation

https://archive.is/AyosK

this lends credence to the stealth comrade theory, btw

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Make the space station out of carbon fiber too. I’m sure everything will be fine!

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the Venera probes failed because they were sent up by commies, our captains of industry will effortlessly outshine their Marxist works

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In all seriousness, I’ve heard this idea before in SF-adjacent circles; the point is that a gas mixture that resembles Earth’s atmosphere is buoyant on Venus at an altitude where the pressure is around 1 Earth’s atmosphere.

Now, actually living there, suspended over some hot hellscape in a machine built by these guys of all options… lol. Lmao, even.

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is stealth comrade theory a thing? I googled it and the only result is your thread on masto

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I probably coined it, in response to the theory that Stockton Rush (what a Rand-ass name) was actually a comrade trying to reduce our count of billionaires

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