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OceanGate's cofounder hasn't had enough!

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SeanB:
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.

Bud:
No worries, the rocket will be made from carbon fiber.

MT:
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.

tszaboo:
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.

RJSV:
   1.).  Take the landing at night, when it not so hot

   2.). Baking Soda to neutralize acidic atmosphere,...(or baking soda emitting towers, to prestabiluze Venus atmosphere.

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