Venus is a fascinating planet. It will be interesting to see how Mars/Venus economic viability compares for colonization once we have proper earth/moon infrastructure in place.
No Maddie, nobody wants to live underground. Forget cloud cities, impossible except in Star Wars and you shouldn't base your ideas on that childish clap trap.
From a long term perspective I think Venus offers more than Mars with regards to terraformation. The trip there is cheaper anyway, never mind the indigenous life.
Sorry Mark, Venus is a 900 degree furnace with a sulfuric acid atmosphere with crushing pressure. This is no country for old men, nor any other kind of men or women or anything else that might ever be alive. Terraforming is just sci-fi, forget that. Mars can work for man. In a hundred years the canals can crisscross Mars and be a home for humans, if they want it.
Venus is impossible. Mars can work. All you need is energy. Current atomic power plants would work. Nobody wants to live underground. You plough 50 foot deep by 300 yard wide channels into the surface, the channels would be lengthened to many miles as more residents want more space. Cover the channels (canals?) with clear plastic or nano materiel. Crack the thin martian co2 atmosphere to make oxygen or make it from ground water. Fill the channels with it til its breathable. You have sunshine and can grow crops and trees in the channels. It might get warm enough in this greenhouse world to be enjoyable, or heating might be needed. The only basic requirement is power, lots of it.
Venus is a fascinating planet. It will be interesting to see how Mars/Venus economic viability compares for colonization once we have proper earth/moon infrastructure in place.
Agreed, they’re so different and present such contrasting scenarios for human habitation. Underground colonies versus cloud cities...
No Maddie, nobody wants to live underground. Forget cloud cities, impossible except in Star Wars and you shouldn't base your ideas on that childish clap trap.
From a long term perspective I think Venus offers more than Mars with regards to terraformation. The trip there is cheaper anyway, never mind the indigenous life.
Sorry Mark, Venus is a 900 degree furnace with a sulfuric acid atmosphere with crushing pressure. This is no country for old men, nor any other kind of men or women or anything else that might ever be alive. Terraforming is just sci-fi, forget that. Mars can work for man. In a hundred years the canals can crisscross Mars and be a home for humans, if they want it.
Our definitions long term differ then.
Venus is impossible. Mars can work. All you need is energy. Current atomic power plants would work. Nobody wants to live underground. You plough 50 foot deep by 300 yard wide channels into the surface, the channels would be lengthened to many miles as more residents want more space. Cover the channels (canals?) with clear plastic or nano materiel. Crack the thin martian co2 atmosphere to make oxygen or make it from ground water. Fill the channels with it til its breathable. You have sunshine and can grow crops and trees in the channels. It might get warm enough in this greenhouse world to be enjoyable, or heating might be needed. The only basic requirement is power, lots of it.