Still Waters Posted September 30, 2022 #1 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Venus, often called Earth’s “evil twin” planet, formed closer to the Sun and has since evolved quite differently from our own planet. It has a “runaway” greenhouse effect (meaning heat is completely trapped), a thick carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere, no magnetic field and a surface hot enough to melt lead. Several uncrewed scientific missions will study how and why that happened in the next decade. But now some scientists want to send a crewed mission there as well for a flyby. Is that a good idea? https://theconversation.com/venus-the-trouble-with-sending-people-there-191534 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted October 3, 2022 #2 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Not a desirable vacation destination. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Wellington Posted October 3, 2022 #3 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all technologically feasible. Venus would be the hardest for keeping a colony cooled. It would be akin to figuring out how to keep an object at room temperature inside an oven on full blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliverjanssen Posted October 3, 2022 #4 Share Posted October 3, 2022 why send a human? just make some drones... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC1701 Posted October 5, 2022 #5 Share Posted October 5, 2022 On 10/3/2022 at 1:19 PM, Cookie Monster said: Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all technologically feasible. Venus would be the hardest for keeping a colony cooled. It would be akin to figuring out how to keep an object at room temperature inside an oven on full blast. A fair amount of geo-engineering and we could make that planet a paradise for the rich and wealthy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Occupational Hubris Posted October 6, 2022 #6 Share Posted October 6, 2022 On 10/3/2022 at 7:19 AM, Cookie Monster said: Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all technologically feasible. Venus would be the hardest for keeping a colony cooled. It would be akin to figuring out how to keep an object at room temperature inside an oven on full blast. Venus' atmospheric pressure is 92 times greater then that of Earth. There will never be a colony on the surface. Venera 13 lasted around 2 hours before being crushed as it melted. The others didn't make it an hour. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Festina Posted October 15, 2022 #7 Share Posted October 15, 2022 NCC1701 Venus doesn’t want the rich and wealthy and they don’t want Venus. They are looking to go Backwards to Mars. All evolving growing things move towards the Sun. The light of the World. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+joc Posted October 16, 2022 #8 Share Posted October 16, 2022 On 10/5/2022 at 4:47 PM, NCC1701 said: A fair amount of geo-engineering and we could make that planet a paradise for the rich and wealthy If that were true then wouldn't it also be true that a fair amount of geo-engineering could make the planet Earth a paradise for everyone? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alchopwn Posted October 17, 2022 #9 Share Posted October 17, 2022 On 9/30/2022 at 9:07 PM, Still Waters said: Several uncrewed scientific missions will study how and why that happened in the next decade. But now some scientists want to send a crewed mission there as well for a flyby. Is that a good idea? Why wouldn't it be a good idea? We need more crewed space missions imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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