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Old October 18th, 2018 #1
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Default NASA wants to send humans to Venus – here's why that's a brilliant idea

NASA wants to send humans to Venus – here's why that's a brilliant idea


Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural History Museum were soliciting reservations for the first space tourism mission, well before the modern era of Blue Origins, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. All you had to do was supply your address and tick the box for your preferred destination, which included Venus.

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Old October 18th, 2018 #2
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No offense but I don't think ANYBODY could live on Venus . .

SO CLOSE TO THE SUN ?


Man may have the ambition to conquer space but planets like Venus I wouldn't touch TBH . .

Nobody has seen Venus' surface so far but I would imagine Sahara in its 50th potence . .


Probably something close to hell . .


NOBODY could ever life there . .

Probably the ancient Venus was more fruitful . .



 
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This is the surface of Venus photographed by the Soviet probe Venera-13 in 1982. Very close to hell, indeed. Venera-13 itself functioned all of two hours on the surface before expiring in the intense heat and pressure.

One of the original color photos taken with the spacecraft's panoramic camera. The object on the ground in front of the probe is a discarded lens cover.



Reformatted image as the Venusian surface would appear to a human there:



With present-day technology, no human could survive on the surface of Venus. What NASA's and some other studies say is that it would be possible to float high in Venus's atmosphere in a pressurized balloon gondola or something
similar above the CO2 and sulfuric-acid cloud layers and intense surface pressure and temperature and study the planet firsthand that way. Perhaps in the far future, terraforming Venus might even be an option, like with Mars.
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Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some
kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and
even dinosaurs.
Back then, and even well into the 1950's, it was a reasonable assumption. In fact, it was Venus rather than Mars where hospitable conditions for life were postulated, both by the general public and the scientific community. Perhaps the most famous and well-known dramatization of what Venus was thought to be like was Ray Bradbury's short story, "The Long Rain", which appeared in his novel, "The Illustrated Man" and later depicted in the movie by the same name:

Rod Steiger and Robert Drivas in "The Long Rain"


A "sun dome", as portrayed in the remake of "The Long Rain" on TV's "The Ray Bradbury Theater"


Younger readers might not know just how differently the planet Venus was perceived just 70 years ago, at the dawn of the Space Age. Because Venus was nearer the sun than Earth, was almost the same size, and had a discernible, cloudy atmosphere, it was thought it might be a steamy, tropical, jungle world. And science fiction writers of that time, believing the same, wrote many, many short stories along those lines, as collected here in this compilation of Venusian stories of that period.

 
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