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Have you looked into the conditions in Venus? It's the closest thing to Hell in the Solar System apart from the Sun.
by 77pt77 1y ago
Have you looked into the conditions in Venus?
It's the closest thing to Hell in the Solar System apart from the Sun.
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoThere is a habitable zone in the atmosphere.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoThe word "habitable" in that sentence should be surrounded by very, very large quotes. There is a zone with Earth-like temperature and pressure, but the atmosphere is still poisonous & corrosive, I think. It's someplace we could probably put a human settlement, but it wouldn't be easy and would probably be as fun to maintain as the ISS.
- sulam 1y agoWay less fun than the ISS, which is like stepping outside on a cold day in comparison. We will have colonies on the moon, Mars, and all the major moons of Jupiter before people are living in the clouds on Venus.
- 77pt77 1y agoYou won't even have colonies underwater, let alone there.
- TeMPOraL 1y agoOTOH, one man's poison is another man's ISRU opportunity...
- anton-c 1y agoThis is one of the reasons it's fascinating to me. We often talk about Mars but Venus is truly our sister planet. But it turns out she's a raging hellhole, the sulfurous evil twin of our lovely planet. Crazy stuff. The fact that - as the other comment mentions - life could potentially survive in the atmosphere is incredible too.