/sci/ - Science & Math

>Nuclear, Aerospace, Mechanical, Marine
Rank these engineering MScs for an astronaut

>>10754921
AI Spacefactory seem to hope so.

>>10755180
Covering your facilities in frozen CO2 and a meter of Martian regolith prevents enough radiation to ensure colonisers can live long happy lives on Mars.

>>10755414
This is the better option for the technology we have now. Earth air floats on Venus, so we could literally just use the air around us for hot air balloons 50km above Venus' surface - or, we could use hydrogen, which would work even better than normal air and isn't combustible in Venus' atmosphere. With the tech level we have now, Venus is easier to colonise than Mars, but I feel like Venus' unique atmosphere means that we should try and establish technologies useful for living on the surface of a planet. The infrastructure on Venus would be more specialised and therefore less useful elsewhere.