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backscatter712

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Wed Aug-18-10 05:34 PM
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14. Maybe improve Venus's climate by putting space mirrors in Venus's L1 Lagrange Point.

Edited on Wed Aug-18-10 05:46 PM by backscatter712

Block some of the sunlight, and see if Venus's surface temperature can be brought down to something survivable by humans. Of course, there's still the 90 atm CO2 + sulfuric acid atmosphere - that won't be easy to deal with...

Alternatively, build cloud cities on Venus. Screw the surface - at about 50 km up, the atmospheric pressure is Earth-like, the temperature is Earth-like, all you need is an oxygen mask, protection from the acid rain, and a buoyant platform to stand on.

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