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I would think that Venus would have a lot of precious metals: gold, silver, platinum, titanium, etc. As well as rare earth metals. It would be a great opportu
by blackrock 6y ago
I would think that Venus would have a lot of precious metals: gold, silver, platinum, titanium, etc. As well as rare earth metals.
It would be a great opportunity to one day build a strip mining colony on Venus, and ship those metals to Earth, and build future space colonies. But it might be easier to find some random floating asteroids that contain all those valuable metals.
I think the most important ingredient that Venus does have, is gravity, that’s near similar to Earth. This means that humans can live on the ground, and not be subjected to mass and bone deterioration of living on Mars.
But first, we’ll need to solve some engineering problems, like how to cool the place down. Maybe throw up some solar shades, and harvest the sun.
- rbanffy 6y agoAll the minerals on Venus are at the bottom of a gravity well as deep as ours. Moon is a much better short term goal.