Or even an oceangoing vessel where a bunch of rich people live out at sea for years at a time without resupplying or taking offboard excursions. Because even eating canned food in a floating prison would be paradise next to a cramped spaceship.
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Even drones are scared to go there. The longest the Soviet probes there lasted was two hours.
Ironically this pic from their last probe shows the condition the billionaires want to leave the earth in
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Yes. Also one of the classics of Soviet era SF about Venus is Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms
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Yet he still seems to be in the media claiming the criticisms of Oceangates safety are baseless and that the silence of the other 200 employees at Oceangate somehow supports them 
So he does not seem to have learned any substantial lessons from that.
Maybe he and Musk can work together and carpool (rocketpool?) to Venus/Mars 
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I’m sure a cybertruck can be used as a spaceship, for a little while.
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I see a collaboration opportunity here. Just need a bigger centrigugal launcher to fit the truck
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Too much friction in the atmosphere- best to put the launcher on the moon.
(Hey, if we are referencing sci-fi, why not Heinlein? )
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This one probably would have lasted longer, although since it crash landed in Wyoming, who knows for sure. Luckily Steve Austin was able to defeat it, huh?
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NASA has a study on a mechanical clockwork probe to explore Venus. Looks cool, but could use some Tim Burton or Guillermo del Toro styling.
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That’s a great film, especially when the robot decides to save himself.
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What do you call 1000 rich assholes on the surface of Venus?
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There was also that Venus probe which started reanimating the dead when it landed back on Earth.
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Makes me think of a story about the Burma Shave company. On one of their roadside sign-sets, they did a gag about collecting 1000 Burma-Shave lids and winning a free trip to Mars. Some lunatic actually managed to collect the lids, so the company found a town in Germany whose name is pronounced “Mars” and with much fanfare sent the guy and his family there for a week. Everybody was happy.
EDIT: I did some research, and it was 900 empty jars, because “900” fit better on the sign than “1000”.
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Or was meticulously disassembled by a curious alien intelligence.
(I liked the show, but “all our probes got immediately destroyed, so let’s just fly our whole spaceship down there to get better readings” really streched credulity, even for fictional characters. Then again, real-life billionaires decided to ride in that janky submarine, so maybe I’m being too critical of the show?)
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Mars, anyone?
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You are Frau Mund and I claim my £5!
For those who wonder: source.
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Not really, but close enough.
Anyway, Burmah handled that one so much better than Pepsi did with the jump jet.
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Hey. It’s bad enough with the paralyzing viruses.
“A virus is paralysing areas of Venus. Raeburn learns that Slim’s uncle Gallia intends to seize power by releasing into the air a powder that causes the paralysis.”
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Different? Yes. But similar? Yep: Sending rich people where those who aren’t could only wish (to send rich people).
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