Why does Sergeant Benton have so much hair, and why is he out of uniform? The Brigadier will NOT be pleased.

Space programs definitely do science and stuff. All I meant to say was that Venus might not be the lowest hanging fruit for scientific discovery. It's really expensive to go there. Doesn't mean we shouldn't.
I see now how my post could read as an elon-fanboi type "colonize all the things" and that was not what I intended. I do think Atmospheric sensor clusters on Venus would be pretty awesome. It could give us an interesting set of insights into a wildly different environment.

Not much to gain by going there. Wildly corrosive, too hot, too hard to terraform with present tech.

okay, serious question, why 3 downvotes? too local? not interesting? Did I muck up the form of the post? This is a genuine question.

Chiropractors.