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our fixation on mars is patriarchal, we should be making dope rear end cloud cities on venus instead
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alright I get just hit n' run posting weird soviet art doesn't get my point across very well so let me break this down for y'all you know what's already at sea level pressure? the upper atmosphere of venus. you know what's already got real good shielding from solar radiation? fuckin' venus. you know what won't turn your bones into pool noodles like space or mars would? the 90% earths gravity on mother  fuckin'  venus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0az7DEwG68A
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Dec 12, 2016 02:44
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Normal rear end earth air floats in the venusian atmosphere, so we just need a steel balloon full of that and we're good. We could probably figure a way out to make cloud cities here too but we don't really need them. Compared to mars venus is way easier to live on, but nothings ever gonna beat living on earth. Although I guess the biggest problem with venus as a colony is we don't really 'get' anything from it other than living space. Except for what we skim from the clouds, all the resources are on the surface and we haven't made anything that survives THAT for more than a couple of minutes. edit: also all those things rudatron said. Some of those are probably easier to overcome than they sound but eventually you either have to deal with getting to the surface or getting to space. Maduo has issued a correction as of 03:26 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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Dec 12, 2016 03:21
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However gravity is still the hugest issue with space colonies and isn't as easy to handwave as it sounds. To make a station have proper gravity it either has to spin really fast or be incredibly big, both of which introduce more problems. We can deal with most of the other issues with space okay but humans do very badly over a long time without gravity. I'd definitely take a space station over mars though.
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