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What do you think about aerostat colonies in the Venusian atmosphere?
Kinda reminiscent of Bespin cloud cities, I read some interesting ideas about feasible colonies floating in the upper atmosphere of Venus around 50 km up (30 miles for those not up on the metric game), and they look to be "safer" than surface establishments on Mars. Your thoughts.
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- RationalThinkerLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
VERY interesting!
Advantages: comparable temperatures, pressure and gravity to Earth.
Disadvantages: huge costs in building and transporting the "city" (on Mars we could use native raw materials), what to build it out of (else it be dissolved by the sulfuric acid atmosphere (maybe ceramics?)), also how to handle the super hurricane force winds (around 350 km/h) at that level of the atmosphere?
