Re:Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered
by stcredzero on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:04PM
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floating cities are not going to happen without some near-magical breakthroughs in materials science and engineering.
The acid clouds aren't that bad. People have even worked out how to manufacture PTFE out of the Venusian atmosphere, so there's your acid proofing right there. We already know how to build lighter than air craft.
And without access to the surface, there isn’t much to do above Venus anyway.
Access to the surface is perfectly doable using teleoperated robots. You can lower them onto the surface with a store of a phase-change substance for cooling. Dry ice might be suitable for that. When they run out, you haul them back up.
There's wasn't that much to do in the desert where Las Vegas is located, either.
The acid clouds aren't that bad. People have even worked out how to manufacture PTFE out of the Venusian atmosphere, so there's your acid proofing right there. We already know how to build lighter than air craft.
And without access to the surface, there isn’t much to do above Venus anyway.
Access to the surface is perfectly doable using teleoperated robots. You can lower them onto the surface with a store of a phase-change substance for cooling. Dry ice might be suitable for that. When they run out, you haul them back up.
There's wasn't that much to do in the desert where Las Vegas is located, either.