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  • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    It would 100% be possible for humans to live on Venus. You would just need to live on a blimp in the sky (so the pressure on the surface does not crush you), and bring your own oxygen. You could even walk around without a space suit on the deck of your blimp-house, because the temperature high in Venus' atmosphere is around 70-80 degrees Fahrenheit at earth's pressure.

    Of course, it would be logistically insane to bring enough air/water/food to Venus to support trillion-dollar steampunk blimp houses, but it is technically possible. You can't walk around without a spacesuit on Mars (the atmosphere is too thin), and on Enceladus or Europa you would have to live underwater. Or, really, under ice. Under maybe a mile of ice (which is terrifying to me).

    • Posadas [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Under maybe a mile of ice (which is terrifying to me).

      On one hand, terrifying.

      On the other hand, you would actually have radiation protection unlike Mars