Solar storms are apt to cook you on Venus along with increased orbital
dark/vacuum energy the closer you get to the sun.
I would choose Mars
Stewart
Darkmattersalot.com
On Sunday, December 16, 2012, Jouni Valkonen wrote:
>
> Actually, we will _never_ build large space or Mars colonies, because we
> have Venus for second home. Venus is after initial costs cheaper place to
> live than Earth, because solar energy at Venus is free (far cheaper than
> e.g. thermal cold fusion electricity could be), because outside
> temperatures are optimal for solar cells and solar flux is very high.
>
> The pressure problem however is really difficult and it helps greatly if
> orbital habitats are kept at low pressure. I could not even imagine
> comfortable living in vacuum. Imagine landing with airplane at worst and
> multiply that with figure 100. Then you should get a feeling how radically
> uncomfortable pressure changes are at high vacuum habitats such as in Mars,
> Mercury and L1 points. There is no such thing as routine when we are
> dealing with high vacuum.
>
> There is also radiation hazard in orbital habitats.
>
> Of course ISS will get company and I would predict that in 2020's we are
> starting to build second generation space station with artificial gravity
> enabled into high lunar orbit. Perhaps into L1 point, what would be
> suitable anchor for lunar space elevator. Near Earth Asteroid material is
> relatively cheap to collect into high lunar orbit and it should compensate
> higher launch costs.
>
> In that Popular Mechanics article there was one very good and urgent
> prediction, that Connecticut could alone feed the world if advanced
> vertical farming projects are utilized. Vertical farming is the key idea
> why it is so cheap to live in Venus.
>
> For Earth as a living planet, vertical farming is essential, because we
> have already solved all environmental problems expect those that are
> related to horizontal agriculture. With advanced vertical farming there is
> no more such thing as environmental problem that is uncontrollable.
>
> —Jouni
>
> On Dec 16, 2012, at 10:29 PM, Jed Rothwell
> <jedrothw...@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jedrothw...@gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> This kind of thing is such fun! See:
>
>
> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/news/110-predictions-for-the-next-110-years
>
> I have a book from 1890 with predictions by people such as Westinghouse
> for the year 1990. A lot of them were smack on target. In some ways it is
> not so difficult to predict the future.
>
> The latest issue of Sci. Am. is devoted to future predictions. Most of the
> authors wimped out. They did not even take a stab at future computers. One
> of them said that space-based cities would have to have low pressure, which
> might affect the health of children. What a nitwit! Does he really think we
> can build cities in space but we can't develop materials strong enough to
> hold 1 atm of air pressure?
>
> - Jed
>
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