Selenian Boondocks had a great series of posts on living on Venus a while ago. The short of it is that there's lots of useful stuff in the Venusian atmosphere,

Selenian Boondocks had a great series of posts on living on Venus a while ago. The short of it is that there's lots of useful stuff in the Venusian atmosphere, and it's much easier to harvest things from the medium you're floating in than to mine it. I'm not going to speculate on terraforming since that takes so long but there's plenty of reason to go to Venus. http://selenianboondocks.com/category/venus/ http://selenianboondocks.com/category/venus/