/sci/ - Science & Math

OK, so lets think.
There may be possible human missions to Venus in the future instead of Mars. Fuck Mars, fuck digging icy cold dirt. Humans in orbit of Venus operating drones that fly in the atmosphere and gather samples - thats new hottest thing.
But there is also risk of bringing those spores back to Earth and infecting our planet with potentially dangerous organism that can turn our planet into second Venus with greenhouse effect.
Venus is easier to reach for inter-planetary science missions, launch windows more often than Mars, less DeltaV, aerobraking, more solar energy. There are going to be many missions to Venus in coming years. Even small nations can do those.
Problem - planetary protection, Venus now is questionable, can't drop everything into it, with no regards for contamination.

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Time travel is a meme. The scenario doesn't make sense, having a proper discussion about it is only for fun.
I prefer the bootstrap/shakespeare paradox anyways. It's like the grandfather paradox but easier to imagine, they're both problems were the situation has no origin point.