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Re:NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet by deletes on Friday July 12, 2013 @08:29AM (#6032204)
That description makes Venus look like a habitable planet.
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Re:NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet by sampo on Friday July 12, 2013 @10:32AM (#6032770)
Actually, if you could somehow use balloons filled with human-breathable air as floating devices, you could float about 50 km above Venus surface, in a nice earth-like 1 atm pressure and 0–50 C temperature range.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#Aerostat_...

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