Venus has been considered a potential location for extraterrestrial life for decades. On the surface, of course, you'd be crushed & incinerated immediately. About 50km up, though, the temperature & pressure are fine: you could in principle survive with just heavy-duty scuba gear.
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The only downside is you better be real sure that balloon gets deployed before you run out of fuel to keep gliding. Would be one heck of an initial colonist ride though.
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I believe the current concept is to deorbit with the balloon deflated and then fill the envelope while still on the parachutes.
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Yeah perhaps? I think we need to get
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Yasss! Turns out, we kinda have the answer: in 1985, the USSR deployed two balloons at Venus, both of which operated for ~40 hours. They inflate in multiple stages during the descent, which starts off hypersonic but then slows to subsonic on 'chutes. (1/2)
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Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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