George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Thoughts and prayers for the billionaires... 🚀
Woodswalked@georgetakei
Make it so!
Gene Cowan 🏳️🌈
Yvan Dutil@georgetakei Tell me you want to kill billionaire and getting free from it.
Doppelmastermanderine@georgetakei Good, let’s send them there!
@georgetakei A Space Merchant?
Martijn Tonies ✅@georgetakei Space is easier than deep sea though. :)
J3RN 
@mt @georgetakei I'm not sure if you're joking, but the atmosphere of Venus:
- is ~800°F
- moves at about 220 mph
- has clouds of incredibly corrosive sulfuric acid
So sure, getting to orbit might be easier than getting to the deep sea, but going to Venus is signing up to be submerged in fast-spinning, boiling Draino (and that's an understatement).
@j3rn Not American, so no clue how much 800F or 220 mph is.
@mt 420°C and 320kph, respectively.
Jayne Stonehouse
Americanist4UBy 2050, that may be the average earth temperature in the summer..
Bornach@Basketofdogs @j3rn @mt
But you're leaving out the best bit
The atmospheric pressure is the equivalent of "being a kilometer (about 0.6 miles) underwater"
https://www.planetary.org/articles/what-would-it-be-like-to-stand-on-the-surface-of-venus#:~:text=The%20atmospheric%20pressure%20on%20the,car%20sitting%20on%20your%20thumbnail.
Will they be using a spaceship of novel design that uses composite materials like titanium and carbon fibre?
What could possibly go wrong?
zeemeermin
Coyoty
Pop Justy 
@j3rn @mt @georgetakei The reason the person indicated floating is that oxygen floats (is less dense) than the Venusian atmosphere. So filling a balloon with oxygen would float above most of the dangers on the planet.
The idea that’s “floated” around is to then put people inside the floating balloon. The thing is, you float above most dangers. There’s still caustic vapors at that altitude.
@j3rn @mt @georgetakei We currently don’t have materials that would last long in that environment. So eventually holes would develop in the balloon without constant repair.
Some have pitched the idea of self healing materials that have to be constantly “fed”, or robots that constantly repair, etc.
All of that is very unproven technology and there is no telling what performance characteristic the material would have.
@j3rn @mt @georgetakei And that’s just the basic problems. A floating colony would have difficulty reaching the surface for any kind of resource, so that colony would be 100% dependent on Earth 61 million km away.
Not to mention that water on the planet is speculatively trapped in pockets deep under the surface, which would be near impossible to drill for.
Number6 
@pop_justy @j3rn @mt @georgetakei But it still may make more sense to go to Venus than Mars. Venus is only 3 months away, compared to Mars 9 months. On Mars, astronauts will have to wear the same bulky pressure suits they did on the moon. They'll have to live underground to avoid radiation, and will have to work out 2 hours a day in order to maintain their health.
Lucifer ☄️@j3rn @mt @georgetakei Although that’s mostly at the surface. To my understanding about 60 km up there is an STP zone that might be relatively hospitable, assuming you stay in a plastic bubble and breathe your own air.
Reiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@georgetakei let's send all of them to Venus or Mars. Preferably with the next Musk big failing rocket. Achieving orbit is a bonus.
Matthew Varpness@prefec2 @georgetakei So you want to send them to two different planets based on their gender?
Steve Popovich@sspopovich @varpness @georgetakei Na. I had a more pragmatic concept in mind. They go to the planet which is cheaper to reach at the given start date. I have plenty of experience with Kerbal Space Program. We could skip parachutes and heatshields. They are not needed on Mars and do not work very well in Venus. And did not one of the Spanish conquistadors burn their ships after arrival in the new world to motivate people?
Daarin
Joseph NoblesOceanGate: making billionaires go crunch real good since 2009
kaaaah@Belinea @georgetakei that's just when they started business, 😉
Player2alpha 🧑💻🧌@georgetakei Mars not inhospitable enough anymore? Why not aim for a gas giant instead? Screw it, go big. I've heard the sun is lovely this time of the year. 
alastair87 (old account)@georgetakei So he's learned his lesson then.
Krispijn Beek
Lurid Sorcerer@georgetakei They'll throw their money at anything as long as it isn't taxes that might help poor people.
Michael Gemar@georgetakei This is like the B-ark in Hitchhikers’, but the “B” here stands for “billionaire”.
That said, I can’t imagine real billionaires going to colonize Venus or Mars — the conditions would be anything but luxurious.
birdpoofAs long as it's unregulated!
carlos quintana@georgetakei - Oh yes, please, go. And don't look up. 🦖
I🤖Retrobots@georgetakei They should firm as 'Heavens Gate'
He of course knew Nichelle Nichols, this is better said to the rest of us.
I had the same thought though.
@Woodswalked oh. Didn't knew that there was a connection. Just tried to make a lame joke. You think I should delete it?
@Wesemann
He has a good sense of when people are being cruel. I am not worried for him. It would be mean if you did know when you posted, it hits very differently once you do.
He has a good sense of when people are being cruel. I am not worried for him. It would be mean if you did know when you posted, it hits very differently once you do.
@Wesemann @georgetakei given the way billionaires generally get to be such at the expense of others like their workers, I doubt that many of them would be headed that way. Admittedly one never knows, but...
ghanito 
SiliconFarmer@georgetakei
Where do I donate to the effort to send all the billionaires to Venus?
Where do I donate to the effort to send all the billionaires to Venus?
Ashwin DixitActually, George, maybe you would prefer it if we sent all the billionaires to Uranus. 😜
Sean Ablett@georgetakei Maybe we should start a GoFundMe in order to speed that time line up.
The Queen of Weltschmerz🏳️⚧️@georgetakei I will happily contribute to the crowdfunder
Screenshot of New York Post text "OceanGate co-founder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050."
@birdpoof @georgetakei did you say floating grave?
Bob Davidson@georgetakei
I’m surprised those guys don’t quietly slink away somewhere.
I’m surprised those guys don’t quietly slink away somewhere.
pfuetzenplanscher@georgetakei Oh my god! Yes please! 😀
quadrivial, tall and graying@georgetakei Yes, because they've clearly mastered survival at ludicrous pressures 😬 . Having said that, I'm all for it if we send 1000 billionaires!
Jumping Mouse@georgetakei Do we get to nominate the Brave Pioneers?
Mary Ann Horn@georgetakei what hubris. Phony wanna be "genius¿
Dominik Dammer@georgetakei is this the solution to get rid of all the rich??? just offer space flight