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  • ↳onMars feels like a really important backup planby
    tommy avatar
    tommy
    stephen avatar
    stephen·...
    I’m in favor of us having a backup plan, but I think it should be Venus actually. There are good studies about this. You can build floating cloud cities in Venus, which float at precisely the altitude where the pressure is about 1 atm and the temperatures are even sometimes what...
    engineering
    space-exploration
    astrobiology
  • ↳onMars feels like a really important backup planby
    tommy avatar
    tommy
    stephen avatar
    stephen·...
    From Perplexity: Floating Cloud Cities: The idea of constructing floating cities in Venus’s atmosphere is indeed a subject of scientific consideration....
    engineering
    astrophysics
    space-exploration
  • ↳onMars feels like a really important backup planby
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    tommy
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    jordanSA·...
    For me Venus sounds slightly more appealing, particularly bc in my mind if something cracks on Mars I'm dead, whereas it sounds like in the clouds of Venus I'll have a long time before I'm atmospherically poisoned....
    space-exploration
    planetary-science
  • ↳onMars feels like a really important backup planby
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    tommy
    jordan avatar
    jordanSA·...
    amazing, I’d never heard of this! Venus is the hottest planet, but I agree cloud city with a slight backup plan feels way better than underground. Venus is 10.65 million miles closer according to Google; is it easier or harder to get to in terms of slingshotting or space debris...
    astronomy
    space-exploration
    planetary-science
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