Just want to clarify, in case someone reads this and thinks "like in the movies, where after the apocalypse it's barren and radioactive and very hot or cold and

Just want to clarify, in case someone reads this and thinks "like in the movies, where after the apocalypse it's barren and radioactive and very hot or cold and you can't survive outside unless you're wearing a suit". That's not what it's like on Venus. The atmosphere is made mostly of CO2. At the surface, it has a pressure of 93 times that of Earth, and temperature of 464 °C / 867 °F. This is sufficiently hot and pressurized that the atmosphere is neither a gas nor a liquid, it's a supercritical fluid. Wikipedia says that we use supercritical CO2 industrially because of how good it is at dissolving things. The record survival time for a stationary probe on the surface of Venus is 127 minutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus#Physical_characteristics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus#Physical_characteristics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_fluid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_fluid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observations_and_explorations_of_Venus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observations_and_explorations_...