Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.

Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.

  • Nepenthe
    21•1 year ago

    It’s ok, guys. This time they’re making the whole facility out of SNES controllers.

    Props to the journalist for keeping the written version of a straight face while having to include such paragraphs as

    If a space station could be designed to withstand the sulfuric acid in the clouds, Söhnlein says, hundreds to thousands of people could someday live in the Venusian atmosphere.

    alongside quotes describing the Titan as “a calculated risk” that is “not deserving of a negative connotation” because without previous experience handling brittle carbon fiber vessels whose single window was rated for a third of the intended depth, “certification would only have served to give the vessel the illusion of safety, which could have led to complacency.”

    Can’t wait to hear Söhnlein and friends livestream it as their living pod is slowly eaten away by venusian acid, upon which time they, like their seafaring colleagues, will become extremely portable indeed.

    • @Djeikup@lemmy.world
      8•1 year ago

      I think a SNES controller is way too reliable. Should be an Apple mouse that definitely wont be needing to be charged at the worst time possible.

      I think they will also need to fire way more engineers who tell them the way they do things are too dangerous.

      • Flying Squid
        4•1 year ago

        An old Kensington Turbomouse trackball for the Mac.

        Possibly the worst pointing device I ever used. Worse than the hockey puck mouse they put out with the original iMac. Every time I used it, it would pinch the skin on my hand at the edges of the trackball. I still use a trackball now, a Logitech M570. It’s terrific.

    • @venusenvy47@lemm.ee
      8•1 year ago

      This is my favorite part of the article:

      Söhnlein said the Titan passengers’ deaths shouldn’t stop humans from continuing to investigate carbon fiber hulled submersibles as a way to reach the bottom of the ocean.

      “Forget OceanGate. Forget Titan. Forget Stockton. Humanity could be on the verge of a big breakthrough and not take advantage of it because we, as a species, are gonna get shut down and pushed back into the status quo,” he said.

      Those two sentences really highlight how crazy this guy is.