"Brad Guth" wrote in message
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captain; does absolute silliness have a numerical value?
Not that I'm aware of. Although, within a naysay black hole of all that
infomercial-science that you're so proud of, perhaps anything is
possible.

captain; aren't you the guy who thinks there should be a colony on venus?
now that's crazy!
I never once insisted that we humans and of our wussy DNA that's
sequestered within our frail water-bag bodies should so much as set a
naked hot foot on Venus, nor much less for that matter a double IR
roasted moonboot upon our anticathode moon of lethal gamma and X-rays,
nor even upon good old and sub-frozen and cosmic radiated to death Mars
seems damn iffy, as well as Mars being something that's terribly time
consuming and spendy as all get out. Besides, most of us still aren't
good enough at surviving Earth, especially of these global warming days
if you can't swim or otherwise outrun a storm, and it's only getting
worse yet if you're Muslim, happen to look like Usama bin Laden could
certainly get a little testy, and your ass is grass if our resident
LLPOF warlord(GW Bush) is the only soul on Earth that thinks you've got
WMD.

I have insisted upon a fully robotic science platform as efficiently
station-keeping itself within the halo of Venus L2, and I've suggested
that even a "tomcat" fat-waverider of a composite rigid airship is
entirely doable as long as the 19 months of a crew being on location
isn't too much to ask for. Cruising throughout the mostly nighttime
cool atmosphere of what's mostly of harmless dry CO2 that's just below
those thick clouds, perhaps as high off the geothermally roasting deck
as 35~40 km, or perhaps as low as 25~30 km seems perfectly doable.

On the other hand, obviously you've already excluded those pesky regular
laws of physics and otherwise having banished whatever's the best
available science of such newish planetology, and haven't we entirely
forgotten about observationology. Way to go, Uncle Hitler, ignoring the
truth at the risk of losing the war (oops! I do believe that's exactly
what happened).

captain; it's not something that i consider on a daily basis.
I totally agree, though perhaps at best our moon offers an hourly basis
of survival if you've got that personal cash of banked bone marrow in
reserve, and I believe that's only advisable if your TBI exposure was
accomplished via earthshine. Whereas otherwise, on a bad sort of solar
day you could be all the way down to minutes shortly after sunrise.
-
Brad Guth



it's really quite flattering that you think i am such a puppetmaster mister
guth.