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>>10930201
bUt ReDdIT MEmE RiCh gUY SaYS wE cAn IF We nUkE mArS. Goddammit OP, that's barely an argument and you're a fucking faggot. So most of the case for Venus is outlined by Landis here: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20030022668.pdf
The advantages are that at around 55 km temperature and pressure are Earth like. Oh and you've got fucking close to Earth gravity(8.87 m/s^2) and protection from cosmic rays and solar flare radiation. bUt tHe sUrFaCe iS 2 HoT! Which is why you build colonies in the air at 55 km high, read Landis' paper faggot. So you see Venus' atmosphere is CO2, which is heavier than breathable air, so breathable air's a lifting gas! So kilometer sized balloons full of regular air can lift pretty much the mass of a small city. Oh and if you really want you can use hydrogen, because that shit don't burn in a CO2 atmosphere. Solar power available at this altitude is >= that available at Earth's surface. Another big advantage is that carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, hydrogen, and even phosphorous are all extractable from the atmosphere. That's all the elements we need for life! And yes, there is fucking phosphorous in the atmosphere, according to the Venera probes, there's as much phosphorous as there is sulfur(pic related) at these altitudes! Yes, there might be some issues extracting the hydrogen, sulfur, and phosphorous because these aren't a major constituents of the atmosphere. But there might be processes on venus which we can use to trivially extract them. It is possible the Vega balloons might have seen rain, meaning we could get these elements just by stretching a big tarp out.