The Venus Society: Colonization of Venus via Cloud Cities!

Geoffrey A. Landis proposed in 2003[1] that we could explore and ultimately colonize Venus using vehicles and cities designed to float high in the atmosphere. There are many compelling advantages of this plan over colonizing the Moon or Mars, and not all of them are technical - some are simply awesome, such as the vision of living in a floating city (instead of an underground bunker). We need a non-profit society which will help bring this possibility into the public eye, both via traditional awareness raising and by coordinating the needed R&D.

[BitcoinMeister]

Great video. People need to see this and those who plan to fund mars/moon missions need to switch to Venus. People will get behind this if they know about it. Market market market!

[linz]

Cloud cities/mushroom cities/floating cities are flexible as first step on the Venus exploration, however, more underground facilities and settlement selections are considered seriously. Because to create an earth-like ecosystem and environment inside of Venusian mountains are more reliable to set our habitable cities, interplanetary highway networks, and further space projects.

[ky-effect]

In order to terraform Venus, don't just erect mirrors to reflect the Sun light, harness the Sun light using solar arrays, they will also block the sun and cool the planet down. So just by default of our energy consumption we will also be terraforming Venus by cooling it down.

[nolan]

Great presentation. It touched on so much of what I've come across on such a colonization effort. One thing I would like to point out though, is that such a colony would also need some way to contribute to the larger space-economy.

Because Venus's surface minerals would be so difficult to access, and getting anything off the planet would also be difficult in comparison to other places, how does establishing a Venus colony contribute to further human progress and what competitive advantage does it have?

It seems like, beyond building some sort of resort or settlement, manufactured products On Venus could never be cost competitive and to develop it for habitation alone seems to be a lacking goal.
Could the gravity well of Venus be the real asset? Perhaps a mega-project in Venus orbit would be the real project, with the aerostat habitats just being the means to an ends?