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In case you're like my space friends who want this as a poster
How did you get friends from space?
Met one on an airplane, actually
Are you by chance the author?
I don't think so but I can check my driver's license
Thank you
... I don't get this comic. Is it satirical, or is it just not saying anything?
Seems to be making the point that it would be kind of dumb to spread across the solar system just making the other planets just as messed up as what we are currently doing on Earth.
It is funny. I am not sure why or why the why matters
Do you not like balloons?
Lol, we ain't making it off earth, especially not Venus
Ironically, between Venus' earth-like gravity and high atmospheric density, it might actually be easier to build cloud colonies on Venus than ground colonies on Mars.
The hard part would things like water and raw building materials, one of the benefits of ground is that it’s mostly iron, oxygen, and other metals, while basically everything on Venus would need to be shipped in from off world.
Right cause getting food/oxygen/water is so easy while in fucking hot air balloons.
They've come up with a way they could do it. I dunno why you're mad about that, I was just wanting to share an interesting tidbit I'd learned.
My understanding is that the reason why scientists like playing with the idea is that it's more feasible than it immediately seems, and it'd solve some of the issues that a Mars colony would have (increased solar radiation due to low atmospheric density and weak electromagnetic field as well at very low gravity).
Would it be expensive? Yeah. We're talking about colonizing another planet though. It already is going to cost hundreds of billions if not trillions to do.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing :)
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