OceanGate’s cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn’t stop pushing the limits of innovation

https://archive.is/AyosK

this lends credence to the stealth comrade theory, btw

  • Charlie Stross@wandering.shop
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    1 year ago

    @kuna Also note that at that altitude, the temperature in Venus’s stratosphere is a positively freezing 30 ℃ or so.

    The real problem is that Venus is short on hydrogen, so getting back up into orbit from the Venusian stratosphere … well, good luck with that.

    (It’d make a good platform for a crewed research station, but a lousy prospect for colonization.)