A BUSINESSMAN who co-founded the firm behind the Titan sub says he is willing to risk his life by going to Venus despite his colleague's death. Guillermo Sohnlein has wild aspirations to send 1,000 people to live in the planet's atmosphere by 2050 - and says he's prepared to make the treacherous 38 million kilometre journey himself. 8 Guillermo Sohnlein wants 1,000 living on Venus by 2050 Credit: gsohnlein/Instagram 8 OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, pictured with co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein, died on the Titan sub Credit: Facebook 8 Sohnlein shared an image working on Cyclops, Titan's predecessor Credit: Instagram/@gsohnlein 8 Debris from the Titan sub was recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic 8 The intrepid entrepreneur - who set up OceanGate with Stockton Rush in 2009 - believes it is critical for humanity to look for alternative places to live.
Sohnlein, 58, has his sights set on Venus - competing against Elon Musk's scheme to have humans living on Mars within three decades. Despite its nickname as Earth's sister planet, Venus' conditions are totally inhospitable to people with blistering heat of up to 462C. It would take around four months to get there and even then, humans would not be able to land on the cloud-swaddled planet's surface.
But Sohnlein has visions of human colonies living on floating cities about 50km above the surface in Venus' atmosphere. He told The Sun: "There's a relatively thin layer in the Venusian atmosphere where we just might.
