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OceanGate co-founder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050 (nypost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.