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RE: Colonizing Venus: Only 90% as Crazy as it Sounds

in #space8 years ago (edited)

VR technology coupled with drones could address most of the problems. You could potentially gather resources you needed from the surface of venus itself using drones that people in the habitats control via VR interfaces.

EDIT: I did think of a problem... sure you could do this on the surface. The problem is dealing with the escape velocity requirements and pressures and such to get the resources back up to the habitats. You could consider a space elevator type setup, but it turns out the cable requirements for that make that a tough thing to consider. Buckballs and carbon nano fibers are getting us closer to that possibly becoming a reality. Yet it is not as easy as it seems.

So VR and drones could only solve part of the problem..... hmmmm Oxygen as a lifting gas... could it get our drones to the habitat level?

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Just not from earth as the delay would be nauseating! :-D

Unless we manage to figure out something cool with quantum entanglement. :)

That would work fine if we could build robots that didn't just melt after a few minutes. That's what happened to every Venus lander we've sent, they survived only long enough to send a few pictures.

Yeah. Sci-Fi approach would require a new material. Which there are some promising new materials. Whether they could be made to work or not... that's another story. (also I edited that reply you responded to... you may have missed some of my other comments)

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