(NewsNation) – More than a year after the implosion of the Titan submersible, the co-founder of Oceangate says it wants to colonize the Moon and create a joint economic system with Earth by 2063.
Guillermo Söhnlein, co-founder of OceanGate, told the Independent that the technology to create a society that connects the Earth and the Moon is now available and that it could become a “thriving community” by 2063.
Söhnlein is president of the Waypaver Foundation, a non-profit organization that aims to make humanity a multi-planetary species. One of the foundation’s projects is Moon Cabin Projectwhich plans to begin operations by placing a cabin on the Moon “comparable to a double-wide trailer commonly used on construction sites” by 2031.
This would allow four to eight people to start living on the Moon and begin setting up an industrial park that could house 90 people.
According to a statement From the project, the Moon could then be used to “discover, manufacture and sell products from the Moon to Earth”, thus starting what the foundation calls the “Mearth” economic system.
This project claims this would allow for a “mini-city” of 578 people on the Moon by 2046 and eventually a “thriving community” of 1,644 people by 2063.
Söhnlein also founded the Humans2Venus Foundation in 2020, which aims to colonize Venus. Although Venus’s gravity is similar to Earth’s, the atmosphere is composed primarily of carbon dioxide, and the planet can reach temperatures of more than 800 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NASA.
However, these obstacles can be overcome, according to the Humans2Venus Foundation. The foundation wants to create structures in the air about 50 kilometers from the surface of Venus.
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