Posted on 12/22/2014 7:32:55 AM PST by BenLurkin
NASA thinks it might have a solution that will allow sending humans up to check it out, though: Cloud City.
The High Altitude Venus Operational Concept -- HAVOC -- is a conceptual spacecraft designed by a team at the Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center for the purposes of Venusian exploration. This lighter-than-air rocket would be designed to sit above the acidic clouds for a period of around 30 days, allowing a team of astronauts to collect data about the planet's atmosphere.
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They can’t even get a man to the space station lmao
Landoville?
In b4 the Uranus joke?
Me too. I can do it for six million dollars or a free 32 oz drink.
Interesting idea for probes to Venus and the large gas planets, but I don’t see the point of sending astronauts.
Pointless danger for astronauts to collect samples when an unmanned mission could do the same at considerably less cost.
Some things are worth the risk but this isn’t one of them.
What if I told you that Eric Holder would be on the first mission?
The acronym may be fitting if the rocket is filled with muslims.
Agree 100%
LOL exactly.
“Saturn Rukh” by Robert Forward.
In the book they go to Saturn on a mission like this and even encounter moderately intelligent life but at the end of the mission they declare it to be pointless and won’t be back.
Sorry, soft drinks are now restricted to only 16ozs. Guess the brilliant nannie bloomers never thought someone might order 2 16’s. Anyway, NASA needs a place to store “zuggie” powered vehicles without the public seeing them. I don’t actually know how it works but it must be super extra top, eyes only, secret if they got to go to Venus to store ‘em.
Well.. of course, this might be out-of-the-box, radical thinking, but.. shouldn’t we first have a manned space program?
The moon is the closest place in outer space yet we have not even paid any more attention to it.
NASA does not have that great of a track record with anything anywhere.
“So listen kids, play in your own back yard before planning to go to another off body world”
And with Obama in office, unless your plans include a gay, female, muslim lawyer just forget it.
Send bots, not peeps.
Send your dollars to...
And when NASA decides to lower payments on the Cloud City Contract. . . they smile at BoeingLockheedNorthrop and say:
“Pray I do not alter the deal any further. . . .”
LOL. I remember that episode...
I agree. In a hundred years, we will have AI-robots who can travel for a thousand years on some mission....and that’s the path ahead. Same way for missions to Venus.
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