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Temperatures on the surface of Venus are around 500 deg C, the pressure is around 90 Gs and the atmosphere is actively corrosive with superheated sulphur dioxid
by Clewza313 5y ago
Temperatures on the surface of Venus are around 500 deg C, the pressure is around 90 Gs and the atmosphere is actively corrosive with superheated sulphur dioxide etc. While you may indeed be right about terraforming, settling on Mars seems like a cakewalk by comparison.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoI had a fictional concept of gas mining in the atmosphere of Venus (like Bespin's Cloud City) but I couldn't think of a way to mitigate corrosion of the materials you'd use to build it by the sulphur dioxide... (On Venus at 50 miles up, the atmospheric pressure is approximately the same as Earth, whereas on the surface it's the equivalent pressure of Earth's Mariana trench.)
- cletus 5y agoIf we're talking about what humanity's future off Earth might look like, it's actually highly unlikely that it's on planets at all, given how hostile such places are, the huge energy costs of entering and leaving gravity wells and how inefficient planets are at creating living area per unit mass. Orbital habitats using spin gravity seem way more likely with places like the Moon and Mercury being the source for the required raw materials.
- technologia 5y agoSuddenly not so much Star Wars as much as it is Gundam :p
- matheusmoreira 5y agoThe people who remain on Earth do nothing but pollute it, because their souls are weighed down by gravity!
- datameta 5y agoOr Culture series :)
- pengaru 5y agoPlanets are protective, you're going to have a tough time dealing with radiation poisoning spending a lifetime in space without them.
- u801e 5y ago> whereas on the surface it's the equivalent pressure of Earth's Mariana trench. The surface pressure on Venus is around 90 atm which is equivalent to the pressure one km below the ocean surface. The Mariana trench is a little over 11 km deep.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoCheers, I kinda dredged the numbers up from my memory.