On Mar 8, 3:38*am, "Stan Engel" wrote:
You're an asshole."BradGuth" wrote in message
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I tend to agree with your assessment about that individual. However,
even though some ill informed folks are fascinated with Venus for the
inconceivably wrong reasons, that shouldn't put us off thinking
creatively about Venus. After all, its still an interesting planet.
While the surface is waay too hot at present and the atmosphere is
poisonous to life at present, it should be remembered that at an
altitude of 50 km or so, the atmospheric pressure is the same as that
on Earth, and the air temperature is a balmy 70 F - and the CO2
atmosphere is 3 times as dense as that of Earth's nitrogen oxygen
atmosphere.
This inspired the famous astronomer Carl Sagan to speculate that
humans might develop engineered free floating plants that process the
CO2 in the Venusian atmosphere into carbon compounds
In 1967 Buckminster Fuller suggested that geodesic domes 1 mile in
diameter could float in Earth's atmosphere being homes to 50,000
people. It is quite possible with 2.5 kg per cubic meter lifting
capacity, that such floating cities might make an appearance in Venus'
upper atmosphere. Such stations might tend aerial gardens that are
engineered to transform the Venusian landscape into something more
earthlike.
I have proposed elsewhere that ICF based nuclear propulsion system
could be used to harvest rich asteroids and bring them into orbit
around Earth. There, teleoperated factories on orbit could process
asteroids into useful products that would then rain down to users on
Earth.
A similar setup can be imagined for Venus. A ring of asteroidal
factories and space colonies could send down engineered plants and
free flying cities. We could call them 'cloud minders'
The atmospheres of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have similarly friendly
environments where cloud cities might be built - if a reason could be
found to build them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floatin...nce_fiction%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus