OceanGate's cofounder hasn't had enough! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2023, 11:09:29 pm
content: Not sure if this has been posted before. Just in case not, enjoy:https://fortune.com/2023/08/01/oceangate-co-founder-venus-expedition-titanic-deepsea-vehicle-submersible/

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2023, 11:27:43 pm
content: If the possibility of being crushed by water does not give someone enough of an adrenaline rush, one can always be crushed by boiling sulfuric acid.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2023, 01:30:28 am
content: QuoteYeah, agressive timeline. The guy will be dead by 2050, as well as many of the applicants.

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2023, 02:45:39 am
content: wonder if they'll name there rocket The good ship venus

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2023, 08:55:38 am
content: Venus, because why would you go to a potentially vaguely habitable planet like Mars, when you could go to a planet that could not even possibly support life and for which life support systems need to be built with parts at least five orders of magnitude better than that which is supplied at Camper World.

author: hans
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2023, 09:54:46 am
content: Quote from: themadhippy on September 15, 2023, 02:45:39 amFTFY

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2023, 12:43:32 pm
content: I heard they're already searching Amazon for a decent controller - currently they're choosing between Logitech and ASUS.

author: Gregg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2023, 05:10:30 pm
content: In keeping with past naming associated with death and disaster, maybe they should change the name from OceanGate to Heaven’sGate.

author: switchabl
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2023, 05:51:13 pm
content: On the positive side, prospective clients need not worry too much about their safety, given they won't actually be going anywhere ever.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2023, 09:12:53 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on September 15, 2023, 08:55:38 amThe guy's point when being asked this is that Venus is 1/ closer to Earth than Mars, 2/ it has a comparable gravity and 3/ it would host more of the resources we need than Mars.Of course he's just one of these guys that have delusions of grandeur - he said that he's always wanted humanity to become a "multi-planet" species. People who claim to decide, on their own, what the future of humanity should be have a serious problem IMHO anyway.In the Titan's debacle, he has seemed to show very little to no empathy whatsoever towards the dead and their families. Freaky.All in all he's just one guy with too much money and time on his hands.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2023, 09:26:59 pm
content: Distance to the planet is not a factor, what is the factor is the time to make the transfer orbit, which is around 9 month for either prospect, though Mars does have an advantage of lower velocity change needed to do orbital insertion. Then the tiny issue of landing on a planet where your atmosphere is essentially pure acid, and at a pressure high enough to dissolve pretty much everything, and hot enough to melt lead, and leave any steel barely capable of standing it's own mass.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2023, 11:23:56 pm
content: No worries, the rocket will be made from carbon fiber.

author: MT
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2023, 04:27:05 am
content: Old saying: Sounds both are scam artists. Oh no, the humanity! There will be a toilet in the very back of the rocket, it was a company feature on the sub.

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2023, 05:56:27 am
content: Nevermind the landing, let's discuss the takeoff. So you need to have a rocket that is much bigger than the Saturn V to take off from Venus, the surface pressure is crazy high. So you need to land an assembled 3-5 stage rocket into an ocean of acid and then attempt to take off from that ocean. Without a platform, fuel connections ground crew.Simple issues, like how do you get 150m into the cabin. It's a ridiculously difficult issue even in KSP.

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 23, 2023, 05:38:49 am
content: 1.). Take the landing at night, when it not so hot2.). Baking Soda to neutralize acidic atmosphere,...(or baking soda emitting towers, to prestabiluze Venus atmosphere.

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 23, 2023, 05:57:39 am
content: Quote from: RJSV on September 23, 2023, 05:38:49 amDue to Venus atmosphere causing extreme greenhouse effect, temperature is the same regardless of time of day.QuoteShould be fun to be inside of violent chemical reaction. Just need to figure out how to bring enough of that white powder.

author: Quarlo Klobrigney
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 23, 2023, 06:47:29 am
content: Quote from: Bud on 2023-09-15, 18:23:56

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 23, 2023, 07:37:43 am
content: aint this creep you guys out?Like, first some poorly managed BS design he made smashes 5 people. I mean its a ongoing scandal.Now he is talking about Venus? High pressure and corrosive gas? in space.thoughts stimulated by looking at the vapors in his crack pipe? I see baking soda is mentioned already.I assume this is fake news/troll.. I don't even wanna hear this guy talk anymore, he is like the piped piper (no, not pied, he ispiped) of stupid. This thought process seems so based up that you need the venus atmosphere to neutralize it. if this dude exhales on a lemon slice it starts slzzling like an alka seltzer and german shepards start barking

author: u666sa
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 23, 2023, 09:23:20 am
content: They can't build one. If they do it would have to be build out of titanium. They'd first have to develop welding technology. They neither have titanium welding tech, nor titanium, nor experience building subs out of titanium. It would be a lot cheaper for them to pay Russians to build a proper sub, about half a billion without support vessel, and about 5 years. Now we all know it's not possible nor it would be possible in the near 10 years. So I reckon it is just a publicity stunt, to get the money, spend that money, and dump the share holders.No, I meat, it is possible. You just take money, go to Russia, sign contract, pay, have it build, then work on it. But the sub, and the money it makes will be under sanctions. So all the money they make will have to be spend in the rest of the world, China, India, South America, Africa, Oceania, middle East.