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Floating Cities On Venus

Posted by Soulskill on from the brain-candy dept.

Geoffrey.landis writes "Some of you may have heard me talk about colonizing Venus. Well, for those who haven't, Universe Today is running story about floating cities on Venus. It's a reasonable alternative for space colonies — after all, the atmosphere of Venus (at about 50 km) is the most Earth-like environment in the solar system (other than Earth, of course). '50 km above the surface, Venus has air pressure of approximately 1 bar and temperatures in the 0C-50C range, a quite comfortable environment for humans. Humans wouldn't require pressurized suits when outside, but it wouldn't quite be a shirtsleeves environment. We'd need air to breathe and protection from the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere.'"

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  1. The Invisible Hand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The invisible hand of free market will once again make everything come right!

    The invisible hand is too busy stroking off a NIGGERDICK! It'll make everything come right alright, but not the way you had in mind ...

  2. Re:Argumentative. by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did you even read the article? Heh, who am I kidding. Of course you didn't.

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  3. Re:Modify people, not planets. by ArsonSmith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you're against Stem Cell research, odds are it has something to do with the "Right-to-life," "Life begins at birth," and other such nonsense. That belief will almost never change in a person, it's too strong and central of a belief.

    Life doesn't begin until 18 years of age. Go ahead and slaughter anyone younger than that. Those conservative nut jobs and their crazy ideas that Life begins at birth.

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  4. Re:Why Venus? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Because the towelhead sand monkeys will try to destroy them.