• DrGumby@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    May be a silly question, but how would you go about making a floating colony? I dont think we have the tech to keep a city perpetually floating.

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      1 year ago

      The theory is that since most of Venus’ atmosphere is CO2 at this level, the breathable atmosphere of a human habitat is actually bouyant, which would make suspending a colony much easier.

      Doing something like that on the scale of a research presence like the ISS is within the realm of current technology-- but you are right that doing so for a whole city is not technically possible at the moment-- nor is true space colonization in general, I would argue. There’s a lot of unknowns and unsolved problems.