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• burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol, we ain’t making it off earth, especially not Venus

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  • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ironically, between Venus’ earth-like gravity and high atmospheric density, it might actually be easier to build cloud colonies on Venus than ground colonies on Mars.

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    • JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except that venus is just absolutely hostile to everything

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    • sonori@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The hard part would things like water and raw building materials, one of the benefits of ground is that it’s mostly iron, oxygen, and other metals, while basically everything on Venus would need to be shipped in from moons or the belt.

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    • Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In the long term, it’s also possible to alter the atmosphere on Venus until it’s approximately the same as Earth. It would be a massive undertaking, but a hell of a lot easier than getting Mars to a comfortably habitable state. And you could potentially get an entire habitable planet out of the deal, which would be nice.

      Kurzgesagt had an interesting video on the topic.

      Obviously it would take a significant investment of resources that would benefit some future generation, but not our own. So, back to being impossible, at least for now.

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    • burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right cause getting food/oxygen/water is so easy while in fucking hot air balloons.

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