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alexpotato • yesterday at 4:48 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The "airships riding on clouds of Venus" is a scifi genre that we need way more of.


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kurthr • yesterday at 5:22 PM

To be at 1 atm you need to be way up near 50km, but you'd probably want to be up closer to 55km to get temperatures down, filling it with higher concentration O2 to make it breathable. Making the envelope durable would be pretty crazy in H2SO4, but maybe Ti would self passivate?

Arguably, more dangerous and harder to navigate than vacuum.

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