Why is nobody seriously thinking about colonizing the atmosphere of Venus?
Why is nobody seriously thinking about colonizing the atmosphere of Venus?
Mason Martin
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Jacob Hall
Because rocky planets are easier.
Levi Watson
And yes, Venus is rocky, but you might as well treat it as not when surface colonisation wouldn't be possible.
Ian Thompson
Because we sill don't have an easy way to escape a 1g gravity well.
Bentley Wood
>sun guaranteed to expand and engulf Venus
>dude colonize the second closest planet lmao
Cameron Torres
Isaac Arthur does....
Austin Watson
It's the soviet planet and the us has no right to explore it.
Dominic Howard
>don't have to worry about low gravity environment
>don't have to worry about radiation
Is it really harder?
Evan Rogers
Oh. Fair point.
Anthony Carter
We cant build an airship to permanently fly on earth why do you expect us to be able to do it on venus?
Blake Allen
Do you seriously think those are the only issues?
Go and thumb over JUST a Wikipedia page to see why you're a fucking retard.
Nicholas Fisher
Endless hurricane force winds full of sulfuric acid. And what is accessible on venus that isn't in deep space?
Michael Reed
On the other hand for the moon and mars
>Don't have to worry about the fact the city needs to survive high winds and must remain airborne
>Don't have to worry about launching and landing on a flying city
>Don't have to worry about corrosion due to acid
>Don't need as big a rocket to leave the planet
Anthony Green
Remove sulfur and get water planet?
Elijah Wood
>Remove sulfur and get water planet?
Nope. Very little Hydrogen. It's the driest place in the solar system.
Dominic Price
not you again.
Levi Ward
Venus was originally an twin to Earth, you idoit.
Brody Taylor
>Venus was originally an twin to Earth, you idiot.
that's pure speculation you pop/sci/ fag.
Jacob Peterson
Velikofsky?
Or where does this shit come from?
Samuel Bell
Small automated research is doable but otherwise utterly worthless until space mega engineering is possible. Mercury and the outer solar system are more suitable targets for colony.
At any rate it has a lot of carbon so barring retardation of humanity into some regressive socialist dystopia it will be useful in the future.
Xavier Ward
>outer solar system
>suitable targets for colony
Elaborate. What's suitable about places with little solar intensity at 50 K?
John Rogers
You could get there, probably.
Jonathan Bennett
acid atmosphere eats everything.
technology just isnt there yet.
Jonathan Green
The only place really suitable for colonization I would guess is the moon Europa.
1. Pape rthin oxygen atmosphere, so there's a chance of harvesting it
2. Ice - for use in deuterium fusion reactors - so there's a major source of power and fuel.
3. A nice view of Jupiter
4. A balmy -171 degree C temperature
...
Its the only place we should go to stay.
Connor Morgan
All the Jovian and Saturnian moons are at least some six hundred million kilometers away, over a tenfold of the distance to the inner solar system planets. People seem to forget that beyond Mars the solar system becomes incredibly vast. Also you have to deal with major solar radiation issues on Juvian moons due to its magnetic field, and the high gravitational pull doesn't make things easier.
Nicholas Walker
Make way for the better girl that won't even kill you and your equipment with radiation on the surface.
Robert Scott
I'm pretty sure we can do that on Earth if we want to.
Jaxon Allen
Business idea: build an airship to permanently fly on earth.
Nicholas Clark
I dunno man, just saw something about it possibly being more hostile than Europa.
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Yeah, the whole premise is based in the idea that humanity can achieve net positive fusion and that it can be used in spacecraft.
Without fusion we're not getting anywhere in any human survivable amount of time.
Jason Perez
Sorry man, I take it back.
Seems the radiation on Callisto is much much lower than Europa. Your girl wins.