Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus

Re:Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus by RocketSyntax on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:53PM (#25066247)

Yeah?

* Venus' avg temp: 880°F (471°C).

* Length of day in earth hours: 116d 18h 0m.

* Weather: storms of sulfuric acid clouds and a crushing atmosphere more than 90 times

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Re:Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus by aetherson on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:22PM (#25066406)

The proposal in the article is to use aerosats to float in a milder, less corrosive part of the upper atmosphere.

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Re:Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus by CameronNemo on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:30PM (#25066462)

If this were possible/feasible, why have there been no successful and large scale examples of this happening on earth? Say, in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

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Re:Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus by bhelkey on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:52AM (#25066894)

While this is a far out of reach idea, Venus' atmosphere has some advantages over Earth's atmosphere. From a link in the article:

> On Earth, we know to get something to lift, you need something lighter than air. Well, on Venus, guess what? Our air is lighter than air, or at least lighter than the Venus atmosphere.” [1]

[1] https://www.universetoday.com/15570/colonizing-venus-with-fl...

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Re:Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus by sjtindell on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:34AM (#25066794)

This is thought experiment stuff, way out in the future. We would already be doing it on Earth at that point if there was a reason to.

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Re:Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus by sjg007 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:16PM (#25066372)

Yeah it’s amazing how people don’t research basic facts.

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