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> The problem with Venus cloud cities is: what's the purpose? What are people going to do there? Sit around and write software? I mean, that sounds freaking aw
by cryptoz 2y ago
> The problem with Venus cloud cities is: what's the purpose? What are people going to do there? Sit around and write software?
I mean, that sounds freaking awesome tbh.
- gravescale 2y agoYou can already live in a tiny cabin and never go outside in any major city of your choice (or even outside a city, but you might need to provide your own cabin). You can even choose to pay the vast proportion of your salary to pay for the right to live there. But you may have to make do with fresh air and water unless you make your own recirculating scrubbers. Give it a few years and Amazon will do housing and then you can even buy everything from the same entity that provides your living volume. I wouldn't want to bet that the operators of a space habitat wouldn't take some cues from the company town era, except with even less oversight.
- piloto_ciego 2y agoCrazy idea, since O2 is lighter than CO2 couldn’t we just terraform the layer of the atmosphere where the cloud city is? Air is a lifting gas, so theoretically could you float breathable air on top of CO2?