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* Venus' avg temp: 880°F (471°C).

* Length of day in earth hours: 116d 18h 0m.

* Weather: storms of sulfuric acid clouds and a crushing atmosphere more than 90 times

The proposal in the article is to use aerosats to float in a milder, less corrosive part of the upper atmosphere.

If this were possible/feasible, why have there been no successful and large scale examples of this happening on earth? Say, in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

This is thought experiment stuff, way out in the future. We would already be doing it on Earth at that point if there was a reason to.

While this is a far out of reach idea, Venus' atmosphere has some advantages over Earth's atmosphere. From a link in the article:

> On Earth, we know to get something to lift, you need something lighter than air. Well, on Venus, guess what? Our air is lighter than air, or at least lighter than the Venus atmosphere.” [1]

[1] https://www.universetoday.com/15570/colonizing-venus-with-fl...

Yeah it’s amazing how people don’t research basic facts.

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