Floating Cities On Venus

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.'"

Comments

Re:don't trust the locals

[Brain Damaged Bogan]

urg, carbonite, not kryptonite...

Re:Instant Global Warming

[Amorymeltzer]

Not to take the bait, but Venus is a lot hotter than Mercury. The all-important albedo can have a much bigger impact on temperature than distance!