Colonizing Venus

Technically, user, there is no point in colonizing anything. We can do experiments on Mars and Venus by building labs on it with humans n shit without really colonizing it majorly. Or we can build better and smarter robots to do everything for us.
Only real reason I can think of major colonization is overpopulation on Earth, which isn't a problem at the moment (despite what media tells you).
Colonization, from a scientific point of view, is only useful once we go to exoplanets and shit. All the "space labs" and "fueling stations" can be set up on planets without having small sized cities on it.

Colonization doesn't do anything to reduce overpopulation on Earth since it takes more resources to send someone to space than to keep him alive on Earth.

Once we build a more efficient way to send people to space, or once we stop using fossil fuels in our lives, there's no point in breeding until the breaking point of the planet. You either send small groups away or you start regulating child birth like China did.

How to stop overpopulation of earth

>Stop foreign aid to Africa

Job done.

who wants to live on the surface of a planet when you can live on an O'neill cylinder

>no one seriously talking about rotating asteroid habitats/oneill cylinders
its cheaper and easier too

Trade what? If Venus isn't giving anything they aren't trading, they're taking.

A Venus colony would be the ultimate group of gimmedats.

If we could find and tow the correct asteroid into orbit we could make an almost self sufficient 1g habitat with existing technology. Fuck Mars, Musk is a moron.

shit, if we had the ability to manufacture things in space, we could have doneit with tech from a few decades ago
the original O'Neil cylinder was supposed to be made from run of the mill steel

Problem is that doesn't get you anywhere. Now you have a big space station that cost a few trillion and can house maybe a few thousand people who are doing what exactly? Not really anything. O'Neill cylinders only work in a post-scarcity society where things and resources are so abundant that we can justify building massive dead-end space habitats for the fuck of it.

Africans aren't really overpopulating the planet though. Just because there's many of them does not immediately mean overpopulation. If Earth had 1 million people, but each person wasted energy equivalent to that of 100 thousand people, it would be overpopulation.
African tribes/villages aren't really causing overpopulation because they don't waste much energy. Overpopulation is mostly caused by developed nations.

But the thing is, people in developed nations are living pretty decent lives, so once again there is no real overpopulation happening at the moment. But this is irrelevant to the main argument anyway.