I need to.find.the article.proposing Venus colonization,.but.in short: Venus has very dense atmosphere, it.was figured out that a balloon filled with Earth air at 1 ATM will float high enough in Venus to have a reasonable temperature, and can.be driven as needed to follow sun and shade as required. The only problem with that setup.is that mining would.require some tether technology we don't have, but that Venus idea is still.better than mars, because it is cheaper to do, have more energy available, and the expected conditions of the balloon is closer to here than anything we can figure on mars
Isn't Venus described as a "living Hell" ? With very high temperatures, high speed winds, toxic atmosphere and so on? If Mars is deemed inhospitable, it's nothing next to Venus.
IIRC Venus doesn't have active plate tectonics, but does have a molten core. Meaning every so often it undergoes a massive global resurfacing event. Several things support the theory, and we can't date when or how often it happens, just a while longer than we've been actively watching it and the next one is due: well we don't know yet, so whenever. Not to mention the crushing pressures and temperatures hot enough to have molten lead on the surface.
Floating cities are really the only way to do it on Venus.
I'm hoping it's a clever code that when broken leads to a cool Easter egg he plants just to see who cracks it.
But vgrepping his comment history, I'm guessing he used his phone which inserts a period when he double taps space. Doesn't explain where the. Missing. Space. And. Capitalization is, though (assuming the auto-complete behavior is consistent across platforms). So I've still got hope for the first.
