Current Events > Venus is basically the worst place ever to live, other than space / Detroit

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When a day lasts longer than a year
Where it rains sulfuric acid
Where it's so hot it literally melts lead on the surface
Where there's a volcano every few miles no matter where you are
Where the atmosphere is so thick your lungs would explode (and then melt from the heat and dissolve in the acid rain)

It's like if Earth hit menopause
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I'm sure the sun or Jupiter would be worse

I'm sure Black Hole's, Neutron Stars, & Pulsars would all like to have a word with you.
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Nonsense. My goddess would never betray me.

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ChessInFiveD posted...

I'm sure the sun or Jupiter would be worse

When I said "space" I was also including basically any interstellar object that isn't a planet.

As for Jupiter, you couldn't ever really "live" there because at very best there's a rocky core surrounded by a sea of liquid hydrogen. I'm talking about a solid Earth-like planet, not a gas giant.

Also Pluto would be cold as hell but it doesn't rain freaking acid, nor is it a planet.
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Pulsars are neutron stars

As a Detroiter, there are far worse places.
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How long do the nights last?
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What about Mercury? It's like 20 Kelvins one hour and 2000 kelvins the next hour.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

ChessInFiveD posted...

I'm sure the sun or Jupiter would be worse

When I said "space" I was also including basically any interstellar object that isn't a planet.

As for Jupiter, you couldn't ever really "live" there because at very best there's a rocky core surrounded by a sea of liquid hydrogen. I'm talking about a solid Earth-like planet, not a gas giant.

Also Pluto would be cold as hell but it doesn't rain freaking acid, nor is it a planet.

Leave pluto alone

KamenRiderBlade posted...

I'm sure Black Hole's, Neutron Stars, & Pulsars would all like to have a word with you.

There's actually a reasonable chance you'd live longer falling into a black hole than you would entering the atmosphere of Venus, assuming we consider "passing the event horizon" as "falling in".
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Tyranthraxus posted...

What about Mercury? It's like 20 Kelvins one hour and 2000 kelvins the next hour.

You don't even get 30 seconds on Venus before you're a puddle of organic fluid.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

There's actually a reasonable chance you'd live longer falling into a black hole than you would entering the atmosphere of Venus, assuming we consider "passing the event horizon" as "falling in".

But if you tried to live in either, you'd most likely be screwed either way.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

What about Mercury? It's like 20 Kelvins one hour and 2000 kelvins the next hour.

You don't even get 30 seconds on Venus before you're a puddle of organic fluid.

not a physics expert but I don't think you get 30 seconds at 2000 or 20 kelvins either.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

What about Mercury? It's like 20 Kelvins one hour and 2000 kelvins the next hour.

You don't even get 30 seconds on Venus before you're a puddle of organic fluid.

So how is that "living" and Jupiter not?

Could you even get to the surface of Venus

ChessInFiveD posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

What about Mercury? It's like 20 Kelvins one hour and 2000 kelvins the next hour.

You don't even get 30 seconds on Venus before you're a puddle of organic fluid.

So how is that "living" and Jupiter not?

Could you even get to the surface of Venus

Ok ok guys. Let me set some rules then.

It has to be a planet that you can actually put your foot on before being dead.

We know we can at least land on Venus with a lander. I don't think we have any spacecraft that could survive the surface pressure of Jupiter.
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Ok then I change my answer to Earth

Am I right libs

KamenRiderBlade posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

There's actually a reasonable chance you'd live longer falling into a black hole than you would entering the atmosphere of Venus, assuming we consider "passing the event horizon" as "falling in".

But if you tried to live in either, you'd most likely be screwed either way.

Hopefully. I'd bring women to my Venusian bachelor pad like I was Elroy Jetson.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

It has to be a planet that you can actually put your foot on before being dead.

pretty sure atmospheric pressure of Venus will kill you before you can reach the surface. Being on surface of Venus is roughly equivalent to being 1km underwater on Earth.
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A rare image of Venus surface. Moments before the probe melted and disintegrated at the same time.
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CapnMuffin posted...

A rare image of Venus surface. Moments before the probe melted and disintegrated at the same time.

It's like post-apocalyptic Beijing
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Solar_Crimson posted...

As a Detroiter, there are far worse places.

Yea like Flint where I am
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Scientists say we can live on the planet suspended in the air jetson style. They say the top atmosphere is exactly like earth
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Coffeebeanz posted...

It's like post-apocalyptic Beijing

Have you seen daily Beijing when there's smog?

It's not much different.
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could we fix Venus through terraforming someday?

Zikten posted...

could we fix Venus through terraforming someday?

Never say never but seems like a lost cause that isn't worth it.
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Sounds like there are no pests like mosquitos or cockroaches on Venus

CHECKMATE EARTH
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Never say never but seems like a lost cause that isn't worth it.

I'd say Venus is more useful as a mining planet for specific gases in the Atmosphere.

If we need quick / cheap access to __ gas or element within the air of Venus, we can easily harvest it and process it in a orbital processing facility that would separate the elements into it's individual components for shipping off into space to other colonies / stations.
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