Rich Bastards In Spaaaaace!
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:19 pm
Primarily neither political, ethical, or scientific per se, Space Adventures For Very Rich People is a spectator sport, mainly irrelevant to those of us who only get to subsidise the merry japes of those who don't pay a fair amount of tax.
And here's the latest, from one of the founders of Get Squished At A Great Depth Adventures...
And here's the latest, from one of the founders of Get Squished At A Great Depth Adventures...
A New Death Awaits You In The Off World Colonies...Söhnlein doesn't see why humanity shouldn't attempt to live on the planet. He points to research that suggests there is a sliver of the Venusian atmosphere about 30 miles from the surface where humans could theoretically survive because temperatures are lower and pressure is less intense.
If a space station could be designed to withstand the sulfuric acid in the clouds, Söhnlein says, hundreds to thousands of people could someday live in the Venusian atmosphere.
He says a floating colony could hold 1,000 people in the Venusian atmosphere by 2050, although exactly how this will happen is less clear.