/sci/ - Science & Math

Space exploration has been like the #1 thing on my mind now for several months. It never occurred to me until fairly recently that it's actually genuinely possible that we might actually get off this rock and start colonizing the Solar System, even in my lifetime. Hell, we might even leave this Solar System and start colonizing others, though that won't be for several hundred years at the very earliest.

Mars is by far and away my favorite planet to talk about for obvious reasons but I wish Venus would get more attention. We should start colonizing that and terraforming it at around the same time as Mars.

For real though, as much as I genuinely think we should be going to Mars, we should be making Venus just as much of a priority really. I think people get caught up on the, "Hotter than hell," thing. Once you cool it down via sunshades, it should be cool enough to land on, then you can start constructing infrastructure to start shipping all the frozen CO2 to Mars. Literally kill two birds with one stone. I suppose it doesn't hurt to land on Mars and start colonizing it though.

>>11412311
>Since Venus has no plate tectonics (and thus no internal dynamo)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/science/venus-volcanoes-active.html
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/1/eaax7445

That's where you're wrong, anon.

>>11413889
How does one even go about colonizing a gas giant? I do think we should set up atmospheric mining stations though.