I'm overwhelmed by just the 16 hour span of 2 rare-event coincidence and am loathe to incorporate more as both a lot of work to validate and as well as unnecessary to already put me in a state of mind that I'd rather not deal with given the need to pay rent.
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Jouni Valkonen <[email protected]>wrote: > James, > > I think that you should also consider that 2014 Mars comet flyby that is > once in hundred million years event especially if it is going to hit the > planet. Odd coincidence or is it just about pushing the Earth's space > program ahead! > > If you have not yet read this Landis paper, I would recommend to read it > because we must become a multiplanetary species. > > > *Colonization of Venus* (by Geoffrey A. Landis) > ABSTRACT: *Although the surface of Venus is an extremely hostile > environment, at about 50 kilometers above the surface the atmosphere of > Venus is the most earthlike environment (other than Earth itself) in the > solar system. It is proposed here that in the near term, human exploration > of Venus could take place from aerostat vehicles in the atmosphere, and > that in the long term, permanent settlements could be made in the form of > cities designed to float at about fifty kilometer altitude in the > atmosphere of Venus.* > > http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20030022668_2003025525.pdf > > —Jouni >
