Let's not be hasty.
Things may not be as bad as they seem. Here's a little further update information:
Heavy Thinking (3)
We’ll need a tether. A nice, solid anchor point in space to connect to as we lower our Habitat into the Venusian atmosphere.
We’ll use Plymouth.
Yeah, I know. It will be like moving a small world around. What’s your point?
It’s all about Delta Vee and reaction mass. We’ll use our Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Thrusters, (our familiarly named “shuttles”) to push us and our captive asteroid into a minimum transfer orbit to Venus.
Then we’ll circularize our orbit into the wind-matching 100 hour orbit. As we had done before, we’ll separate the Flying Castle Habitat from Habitats A and B, which will remain connected and mutually rotating on the Thrust Ring, and we’ll begin lowering the Flying Castle toward Venus.
Here’s one of the problems. You may recall that all of the interior structure of the Flying Castle is designed to remain in a gravitational field, whether natural or artificially created.
For the first time since we left Lake Fate, the Flying Castle Habitat will have to be exposed to zero-gee.
For safety’s sake, the Flying Castle will descend into the atmosphere of Venus after it has been evacuated of people and pets.
The moat will be drained. The castle walls and structures will be reinforced to hold together. All unattached things will be stowed away in some fashion.
This includes the plesiosaurs. They will be confined to their grotto. For the sake of posterity and hilarity, we will have some cameras recording their antics and confusion in zero gee, but we expect that they will come through the ordeal without injury other than to their pride.
The fish too will have to be collected and put into storage containers. Zero gravity shouldn’t harm them, but we have to keep their water contained.
The return of gravity will come gradually as the Flying Castle Habitat nears and enters the Venusian atmosphere. Then we will be able to return the residents to it, using our newest form of transportation, a device which traverses the very long tether cable.
We can also use shuttles to move back and forth from the Flying Castle to the orbital Habitats above. They will be faster.
Telecommunications will be fast enough, although the astute observer will notice a slight delay due to the time of light travel along the tether. This is similar to the delays we have experienced any time a shuttle has been traveling away from base.
Once the Flying Castle is safely floating in the atmosphere of Venus, we can enjoy the differences that will bring about.
For one thing, we’ll be able to experience a stronger, real gravity pull again. Under these circumstances, one’s weight will be approximately ninety percent of Earth normal, if you can remember what that was.
If you have grown accustomed to Mars gravity, as simulated by our rotation rate, you will suddenly feel three times heavier. If this will be a problem for you, you might consider relocating to either Habitat A or B.
If you want even less than that, you can visit the Thrust Ring, which is more like the moon as far as the feel of gravity. Or you can go into the excavated portions of Plymouth. (As soon as we have a chamber big enough there, we’ll try flying with strap-on wings.)
Where were we?
Oh, yes. Inside the Flying Castle Habitat, floating because its total weight will be slightly less than the weight of the carbon dioxide displaced by its volume, (see Archimedes in his bathtub).
A one-hundred hour day is going to represent a change, as the winds of our altitude carry us around the planet. Most of us will get used to taking siestas during daylight, and working under artificial light when it is dark.
The plants probably won’t care or notice, although the birds will undoubtedly have some stresses in adapting.
We won’t be subject to seasons, unless we work to create them.
Also, dose a rhetorical question need a question mark.
We lose our crops of hops, grain, and corn... gonna be some cranky creatures to deal with.