THEY'RE GOING AGAIN

Oceangate has a new mission
oh hello there.

[knuxenglish]

"It's even funnier the second time!"

[heavensent]

Waiter! Waiter! More billionaires please
- the ocean

[TheNorwellian]

“Wanna see me dive too deep into the ocean ?”
*titan disaster*
“Wanna see me do it again ?”

[pradeepdungdung]

"Heating things is easy. Cooling things is hard. WE SUCK AT IT!" - spantz

[crimsondynamo]

Well now hang on, if he really wants to go to Venus so badly, let’s not stop him from going himself.

[hacker]

"I'll fucking do it again"

-Goofy

[sigmaofthecomments]

bro is literally spongebob (don't learn from mistake)

[Terra_]

To give some context on Venus being "more habitable than mars": NASA said that Venus could be potentially habitable, as the high temperatures/extreme conditions are only on the ground. The plan would be to create sky bases that float high above the layer on the ground, where the conditions are better than that of mars due to regular temperatures (like earth), Venus still having an atmosphere, and similar air pressure.

[Fsacon]

"We're making a sequel!"

[Clbull]

The argument for colonizing Venus does hold some weight to it. Venus has comparable gravity to Earth, plus if you go high above the Venusian clouds, the atmospheric pressure and temperature is more comparable to Earth's.

If we want to colonize the surface though, we'd need to terraform the planet by freezing the atmosphere, somehow offloading all the dry ice and yeet enough asteroids towards Venus to introduce nitrogen and oxygen.

[moldysshoe]

2:33 that's because it's a potentially easier terraforming target. It's easier to remove the gases, and we could theoretically float habitats within the atmosphere at a level with similar atmospheric pressure and felt gravity to earth. There's a video or two on YouTube by Isaac Arthur if I'm remembering right.

[melonstorm]

We're doing a sequel
We're back by popular demand
Come on everybody, strike up the band!
We're doing a sequel
That's what we do in Hollywood
And everybody knows the sequel's never quite as good

“the muppets”

[TheDeceptiveHero]

“Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact same f-ing thing, over and over again, expecting $hit to change. That. is. crazy.”

[Davtwan]

“Y’all built different; I’m built incorrectly.” - This sub probably.

[JOJO-ojgy]

The Ocean : " How many times should I teach you this lesson old man"

[seagullman]

Can't believe I'm about to defend an Oceangate executive, but here I go: When space nerds talk about colonizing Venus, they're talking abput living in floating habitats in the upper layers of the atmosphere, NOT the surface. This is because the temperatures and pressures at that height are much more comparable to Earth, making it surprisingly easier to deal with than Mars. Also Mars' soil is actually hazardous to humans, so there's that too. Granted, issue with Venus is ghe risk that your floating cloud balloon city might suffer a leak, which would then send your habitat tumbling down into literal hell. But that's just a "small" tradeoff.

[ATBZ]

Response to the venus thing: the clouds on venus are so dense that stuff can float on them. So in short, the plan is floating cities.
From there terraforming methoods diverge, with people like carl sagan who said to use genetically engineered bacteria to convert carbon in the atmosphere into organics,
but the most accepted plan would to be to bombard the atmosphere with a ton of hydrogen taken from thier icy moons or from a gas giant. As well as iron aersol which would be taken from thier moons as well. This would leave atmospheric pressure at 3x earth, with nitrogen eventually dissolving into the newly formed oceans. And because of the new lack of greenhouse gasses, it will cool, especially after plant life is established. And if that doesn't work in a timely fashion a series of solar shades are planned to be used to kickstart cooling.
Venus is definitely not easier to colonize but in contrast with mars, it can be actually terraformed and have things actually live there. Plus, its actually got a liveable amount of gravity.

[exploshaun]

In theory, you could avoid the heat by floating high the atmosphere. Venus’ atmosphere is dense enough that a blimp filled with regular Earth air would float. A toxic Venus atmosphere is also in theory more useful than a nonexistent Mars one since you can use it as a resource and it helps protect against cosmic radiation.

In practice, I have no idea how sustainable a floating Venus city would be. Especially when dropping too low would instantly crush you like an ocean gate craft.

[akpsyche]

In a little bit of defense of the Venus colonization idea, I have heard that you could have people colonize the upper atmosphere in what are basically airships filled with earth air, because Venus’ atmosphere is so dense they would float up there. That would mostly be for scientific research and would still be very different from actually colonizing the planet, though.

[BM-_KATYUSHA]

I don't feel sad when bad things happen to people who can solve world hunger or cure cancer but decide to go into a sinkhole in the Bahamas instead.