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"I have an assumption that bradguth is a venusian." As such, I've got the following to offer.
Venus for dummies: (just a few basics that shouldn't be over the heads of a grade school education), and that's not intended as an insult, just another observational fact of life as we seem to know it.
i) it's humanly hot and nasty (very greenhouse), as in duh-101
1a) though it's NOT nearly too hot and nasty as for applied physics-101
1b) the nasty part about the 92+bar pressure aspect is even quite humanly survivable
1c) there is NO fee acid about the surface of Venus, only harmless sulfur-like crystals
2) the surface is offering whomever at least 50°K cooler by nighttime than by day
2a) an elevated surface (say 5+km) is at least 100°K cooler by night than by day
3) Venus clouds and haze(5.5e20 kg) contain 25%/kg H2O, to as much as 33%/kg H2O by night
3a) it is entirely possible to extract said H2O (25% of 5.5e20 kg H2SO4) via vacuum distillation
3b) collected H2O can then be converted into 100% H2O2, thus more valuable and stored upon Venus
4) Artificial production of energy can be accommodated by way of the 4+bar/km differential
4a) with said energy (GW if need be) all sorts of insurmountable things become entirely surmountable
5) the sheer buoyancy of 65+kg/m3 represents that rigid airships would function quite nicely
5a) there's something of an unusual airship-like mass that's associated with the existing tarmac
5b) oops, there I've suggested that a highly mountainous terrain offers a rather noticeably flat tarmac like infrastructure
6) active lava and/or mud-flows currently exist, thereby additional energy and geological resources do in fact exist
6a) with said resources via geological activity, and of new elements being exposed, other artificial processes could be accommodated
6b) with said raw elements and nearly unlimited energy at your disposal, the likes of CO2-->CO/O2 is simply yet another done deal
BTW; why would someone trapped into surviving the onset of a truly nasty amount of greenhouse, having nearly unlimited resources of energy at their disposal, and a terrific amount of available buoyancy throughout a crystal clear atmospheric ocean give up upon life, as simply because their planet is situated nextdoor to the most absolute dumb and dumber other most pathetic planet in the universe doesn't make any sense?
Unlike Mars, at least whatever life (intelligent or not) that's situated on or about Venus has the terrific shield benefit of the atmospheric density that'll fend off most all meteorites, and otherwise protect them from cosmic radiation, and even protection them from the bulk of potentially lethal solar radiation, especially by way of a 2900+hr season of nighttime. So, you're not being pulverised, nor TBI to death, or even roasted because of such terrific pressure and/or because of your exoskeletal physiology, or that of utilizing the R-1024/m of insulation easily created from basalt composites, and by way of having and/or extracting more available green-energy than you can possibly shake a flaming stick at, whereas at least intelligent life of even a heathen like status could have managed. Transporting yourself about as to remaining within the season of nighttime is rigid-airship physics-101, thus that's another done deal.
Obviously, for most folks upon Earth, those Magellan images are of insufficient resolution, but then so were all of the vast greater numbers of NSA/DoD images of Iraq, but we went there anyway, and subsequently spending ten fold of what it would have taken as to have visited Venus, and wasted just as much time.
Most folks fail to realize the truth potential of what an SAR imaged pixel represents, especially one of a 43° perspective at that, compared to something of conventional CCD that merely records reflected photons and dependent upon optics that can distort all sorts of size and even shape relationships, if not entirely invert the perspective of what's being interpreted. In fact, conventional CCD images can NOT be interpreted as for the substance of what's recorded, whereas radar images are intrusive about telling us what a substance is most likely to be.
A replacement Magellan mission, instead of delivering 75 meter/pixel, could provide at least 10 meter or better resolution at 16 bits/pixel. A TRACE-II placed at Venus L2 (+/- whatever offset) could implement the usual solar monitoring while affording a microwave/laser transponder utility that would enable a nearly continuous live data link, and while out of Earth's range could (4~6 months worth) efficiently store a few thousand terabytes worth of communications and/or images until Venus re-emerges itself from the backside of the sun. The new and improve TRACE-II camera and optics could enable at least another ten fold magnification and thereby greatly improved resolution of solar events, and from entirely new perspectives which can NOT be obtained by the current TRACE instrument (that alone is worth the V-L2 placement of the existing TRACE instrument which is past due for being taken off-line), plus being better than 25% closer to the sun would only further enhance upon said images.
Doing Venus isn't a factor of lacking technology, nor of cost, nor of time, as we've blown a hundred fold more so upon other far less moral adventures that have thus far yielded squat nothing on behalf of humanity (the humanity I'm speaking of as being that other 99.9% scum of the Earth), except for perhaps diverting talents and resources away from life-essential tasks upon Earth, and/or on behalf of our prematurely terminating a few too many of said humanity. Thus the technological as well as moral arguments against Venus are entirely bogus, as well as intellectually biased if not outright bigoted against the facts.
ESA is about to wipe our butts (big time) over this Venus opportunity, while all of our spin and damage-control freaks (part of the 0.1% collective of Earth) seems to be focused upon is protecting their mainstream status quo, in spite of the truth and nothing but the truth or consequences seems the tallest "Skull and Bones" order of their every day. I say, so what if we've snookered the world about our landing on the moon, as in the infamous words of our commander and chief village idiot moron warlord, "so what's the difference". It's past due that we advance to the next level(s), whereas how we got to this point isn't all that important, especially if there's an easily obtainable bounty that's just sitting there upon Venus, whereas the only thing that's more important than Venus is for our establishing the LSE-CM/ISS before the likes of ESA or China accomplishes it first.
PS; I'm not actually all that smart, just not nearly as dumbfounded as you think.
Regards, Brad Guth / GASA~IEIS http://guthvenus.tripod.com/update-242.htm
"I have an assumption that bradguth is a venusian." As such, I've got the following to offer.
Venus for dummies: (just a few basics that shouldn't be over the heads of a grade school education), and that's not intended as an insult, just another observational fact of life as we seem to know it.
i) it's humanly hot and nasty (very greenhouse), as in duh-101
1a) though it's NOT nearly too hot and nasty as for applied physics-101
1b) the nasty part about the 92+bar pressure aspect is even quite humanly survivable
1c) there is NO fee acid about the surface of Venus, only harmless sulfur-like crystals
2) the surface is offering whomever at least 50°K cooler by nighttime than by day
2a) an elevated surface (say 5+km) is at least 100°K cooler by night than by day
3) Venus clouds and haze(5.5e20 kg) contain 25%/kg H2O, to as much as 33%/kg H2O by night
3a) it is entirely possible to extract said H2O (25% of 5.5e20 kg H2SO4) via vacuum distillation
3b) collected H2O can then be converted into 100% H2O2, thus more valuable and stored upon Venus
4) Artificial production of energy can be accommodated by way of the 4+bar/km differential
4a) with said energy (GW if need be) all sorts of insurmountable things become entirely surmountable
5) the sheer buoyancy of 65+kg/m3 represents that rigid airships would function quite nicely
5a) there's something of an unusual airship-like mass that's associated with the existing tarmac
5b) oops, there I've suggested that a highly mountainous terrain offers a rather noticeably flat tarmac like infrastructure
6) active lava and/or mud-flows currently exist, thereby additional energy and geological resources do in fact exist
6a) with said resources via geological activity, and of new elements being exposed, other artificial processes could be accommodated
6b) with said raw elements and nearly unlimited energy at your disposal, the likes of CO2-->CO/O2 is simply yet another done deal
BTW; why would someone trapped into surviving the onset of a truly nasty amount of greenhouse, having nearly unlimited resources of energy at their disposal, and a terrific amount of available buoyancy throughout a crystal clear atmospheric ocean give up upon life, as simply because their planet is situated nextdoor to the most absolute dumb and dumber other most pathetic planet in the universe doesn't make any sense?
Unlike Mars, at least whatever life (intelligent or not) that's situated on or about Venus has the terrific shield benefit of the atmospheric density that'll fend off most all meteorites, and otherwise protect them from cosmic radiation, and even protection them from the bulk of potentially lethal solar radiation, especially by way of a 2900+hr season of nighttime. So, you're not being pulverised, nor TBI to death, or even roasted because of such terrific pressure and/or because of your exoskeletal physiology, or that of utilizing the R-1024/m of insulation easily created from basalt composites, and by way of having and/or extracting more available green-energy than you can possibly shake a flaming stick at, whereas at least intelligent life of even a heathen like status could have managed. Transporting yourself about as to remaining within the season of nighttime is rigid-airship physics-101, thus that's another done deal.
Obviously, for most folks upon Earth, those Magellan images are of insufficient resolution, but then so were all of the vast greater numbers of NSA/DoD images of Iraq, but we went there anyway, and subsequently spending ten fold of what it would have taken as to have visited Venus, and wasted just as much time.
Most folks fail to realize the truth potential of what an SAR imaged pixel represents, especially one of a 43° perspective at that, compared to something of conventional CCD that merely records reflected photons and dependent upon optics that can distort all sorts of size and even shape relationships, if not entirely invert the perspective of what's being interpreted. In fact, conventional CCD images can NOT be interpreted as for the substance of what's recorded, whereas radar images are intrusive about telling us what a substance is most likely to be.
A replacement Magellan mission, instead of delivering 75 meter/pixel, could provide at least 10 meter or better resolution at 16 bits/pixel. A TRACE-II placed at Venus L2 (+/- whatever offset) could implement the usual solar monitoring while affording a microwave/laser transponder utility that would enable a nearly continuous live data link, and while out of Earth's range could (4~6 months worth) efficiently store a few thousand terabytes worth of communications and/or images until Venus re-emerges itself from the backside of the sun. The new and improve TRACE-II camera and optics could enable at least another ten fold magnification and thereby greatly improved resolution of solar events, and from entirely new perspectives which can NOT be obtained by the current TRACE instrument (that alone is worth the V-L2 placement of the existing TRACE instrument which is past due for being taken off-line), plus being better than 25% closer to the sun would only further enhance upon said images.
Doing Venus isn't a factor of lacking technology, nor of cost, nor of time, as we've blown a hundred fold more so upon other far less moral adventures that have thus far yielded squat nothing on behalf of humanity (the humanity I'm speaking of as being that other 99.9% scum of the Earth), except for perhaps diverting talents and resources away from life-essential tasks upon Earth, and/or on behalf of our prematurely terminating a few too many of said humanity. Thus the technological as well as moral arguments against Venus are entirely bogus, as well as intellectually biased if not outright bigoted against the facts.
ESA is about to wipe our butts (big time) over this Venus opportunity, while all of our spin and damage-control freaks (part of the 0.1% collective of Earth) seems to be focused upon is protecting their mainstream status quo, in spite of the truth and nothing but the truth or consequences seems the tallest "Skull and Bones" order of their every day. I say, so what if we've snookered the world about our landing on the moon, as in the infamous words of our commander and chief village idiot moron warlord, "so what's the difference". It's past due that we advance to the next level(s), whereas how we got to this point isn't all that important, especially if there's an easily obtainable bounty that's just sitting there upon Venus, whereas the only thing that's more important than Venus is for our establishing the LSE-CM/ISS before the likes of ESA or China accomplishes it first.
PS; I'm not actually all that smart, just not nearly as dumbfounded as you think.
Regards, Brad Guth / GASA~IEIS http://guthvenus.tripod.com/update-242.htm