Posted on 10/16/2018 11:25:35 AM PDT by DFG
I guess this is an unmanned probe concept.
Kinda like the DNC presidential conventions
It looks like a spend more taxpayer money concept to me.
SpaceX is threatening their send people to Mars boondoggle, so Venus will be their backup plan.
Think there was a major hottie in that episode.
Yes, there was a hottie in that episode, and she was very interested in Mr. Spock. She was attracted to his logical mind, as I recall.
Air density at the surface is 90x earth, they plan to float these at 50-70k above Venus where the air density is half that of sea level on Earth.
The interesting thing is at this altitude not only is the pressure human comparable but the temperature is as well 20-30C that’s fall in Texas temps. No pressure space suit needed you could be in a hazmat suit with an SCBA tank and go outside the blimp. Which at this density altitude normal air of 78%N2 22% O2 would be lifting gas you could literally live inside the blimp’s flotation envelope which is probably the plan all along. Have that massive air volume that is holding the blimp up double as habitat space with walkways and platforms most of the internal volume would still be lifting gas.
The real trick is how to inflate the thing before it sinks so deep that the temps melt the envelope. My plan would be reenter using a inflatable ballute heat shield that would automatically double as the initial pilot lift envelope then when subsonic inflate the blimp proper. Ask the Russians they have already sent balloons successfully to Venus on their Vega probes.
I'm glad that NASA is at least still interested in doing pure research in space. It should be involved in developing ways to live on the Martian surface as a sort of participation in Musk's great colonization project. There will have to be a way to detoxify the Martian soil, for example.
Bullcrap.
We aren’t going to Mars or Venus, or any other planet, for that matter. It’d take 50yrs to develop the technology etc, and we aren’t doing it. The moon was as far as we go.
I have seen some old star treks with some new special effects put in, mainly on spaceship scenes.
The good news is, Venus’ atmosphere is almost 100x as dense as earth’s, so an “air” ship would be really, really buoyant.
The bad news is, Venus commonly has winds in excess of 200 mph, and sometimes over 400. So good luck keeping it in one piece.
I have seen some old star treks with some new special effects put in, mainly on spaceship scenes.
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