NASA mission to Venus... 2028? That's not anytime soon.

They travelled through time backwards and went already?

mmm what?

ok, do you mean 2081 because I am confused

28 I meant.

2028? That doesn't seem very soon. But in NASA time, that's a short timetable.

Yup. Just saw it on the Nasa life stream where they had an Q&A about it.

It will get here faster than you think.

:-/

Also 6 months is the sweet spot for arriving there after launch.

If they start planning at NASA speed now they won't be ready in '28

Nasa told the developers to be ready in '28.

I thought that said sweet spot to arrive after lunch.

A new focus on Venus is a good idea because pressure and temperate can be more earth like than mars. Oxygen is only major problem (or falling)

Squeak =^..^= :

DevinVaughn : It's ony 900F hot there and raining acid.

Tillie : So it's where Earth is headed. Eventually.

Suze : Well said.

DevinVaughn : Uh... wut??

Tanarian : If we have floating cities on venus, it will be the closest place in the solar system to being on earth

Technically, living in a trailer on the moon would be closer.

Would that not depend on where the moon is in its orbit?

I think it's exceptionally rare for the Moon to be further from Earth than Venus is...

hope so, would be weird if not

Now, if I had read and understood the DevinVaughn comment correctly in the furst place, I would have to agree with you.

DevinVaughn : Oh, well, IF. "Floating" was not instantly inferrable. However, I'm still pretty sure Mars is far less likely to kill you instantly if there's an environmental breach.

I know, I know.. we are programed to think of colonization off world = Mars. But really we should seriously consider Venus

Should We Be Trying to Colonise Venus Instead of Mar...

[insert El Dorado GIF here]

We really don't have a model for non-surface colonization yet, outside of science fiction. That's probably part of why Venus isn't considered more often. (Asimov's alt!Venus had cities floating on seas, IIRC.)

Tanarian : surfacism? Here's a wild thought... Venus is Earth's twin but has a runaway greenhouse effect. What if we fixed it? 2 Earths. Boom.

There is all this talk of terraforming Mars, but it's a wasted effort because the sun would blow away. The hard fought for air since there is no magnetic shield protecting it. Venus however does.

So if we could cool down Venus, we might be able to return it to a more earth like place?

That's such a long-term project I can't even imagine.

Why do we want to?

It might be good to have another place where people could live if Earth faces an substantial planetary threat. On the other hand, the effort required to alter a planet is likely so enormous that we may be better off expending it to solve the issues we face here, especially since neither of the candidate planets being discussed here are...

... especially distant from Earth.