Abstract. Although the surface of Venus is an extremely hostile environment, at about 50 kilometers above the surface the atmosphere of Venus is the most earthlike environment (other than Earth itself) in the solar system. It is proposed here that in the near term, human exploration of Venus could take place from aerostat vehicles in the atmosphere, and that in the long term, permanent settlements could be made in the form of cities designed to float at about fifty kilometer altitude in the atmosphere of Venus.
>>Also designing and building musical instruments would be pretty geeky even in the 16th century
I know how to do that. In 1995 I went to http://www.timelessinstruments.com/classes.html Fun stuff. Well worth the 2 months of living in the Saskatchewanian boondocks. (Wait a minute, that's redundant...)
I never really got off the ground with instrument making though. I piddled around sporadically with it for a few years, until in '99 I screwed up BIG TIME and went culinary school. Now I'm stuck in a stable career with union benefits and wages.
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Where's the love and the dreams for Venus?
e nus/VenusColony_STAIF03.pdf
right here in this here paper is where it is.
http://powerweb.grc.nasa.gov/pvsee/publications/v
From the link:
Abstract. Although the surface of Venus is an extremely hostile environment, at about 50 kilometers above the
surface the atmosphere of Venus is the most earthlike environment (other than Earth itself) in the solar system. It is
proposed here that in the near term, human exploration of Venus could take place from aerostat vehicles in the
atmosphere, and that in the long term, permanent settlements could be made in the form of cities designed to float at
about fifty kilometer altitude in the atmosphere of Venus.
That the planet Saturn, like about 3000 other people, was once a member of the space-rock group Hawkwind, in the early seventies.
>>Also designing and building musical instruments would be pretty geeky even in the 16th century
I know how to do that. In 1995 I went to http://www.timelessinstruments.com/classes.html Fun stuff. Well worth the 2 months of living in the Saskatchewanian boondocks. (Wait a minute, that's redundant...)
I never really got off the ground with instrument making though. I piddled around sporadically with it for a few years, until in '99 I screwed up BIG TIME and went culinary school. Now I'm stuck in a stable career with union benefits and wages.