Seems more like a technological debate than a general factual question, so if the mods want to move it please do.
Could humans colonize Venus?
Not teraform it, beside the obvious requirement for liveable living space 
Not visit it.
But send folks there and have them stay there, live there, and mostly be self sufficient (besides “fancy” stuff that makes more sense to send than be made on site).
Any 2 cents for sharing out there?
I’m pretty sure the answer there is a big ol’ NO.
Unbreathable atmosphere at a huge pressure at a superhot temperature is kind of a deal breaker for the humans.
Is it really much worse than the condition on the moon?
The surface atmospheric conditions are very corrosive and hostile - I think we’d have a fairly hard time developing a decent range of suitably resistant materials with which to build a habitat.
Maybe underground dwelling would be possible, if a geologically stable place could be chosen.
yeah!
those last renters really trashed the place
By orders of magnitude. As one example, the greatest pressure differential that lunar craft must endure is 1 atmosphere. On Venus, it’s over 100.
The surface would be too hot, but with the thick atmosphere on Venus, a blimplike floating structure could work.
Wikipedia agrees with me!
So you could apparently just make a big zeppelin-like structure, fill it with Earth-style air, and live inside it.
Maybe - just as long as there was no way it could ever go wrong and plummet into the lower atmosphere. I would imagine the chemical composition of even the upper, rarefied layers is still going to be pretty tough on materials, isn’t it?
IIRC, it has been difficult for anyone to get a *probe *to survive the conditions in Venus’s atmosphere long enough to send a message back. No way puny humans can survive when a machine gets corroded and crushed in minutes, if not seconds.
Cloud City anyone?
Buttttttt…
It was just a couple hundred pound probe that lasted an hour or so. It sent back plenty of pictures and data. You can’t even fit a human in that unless you puree em.
It didnt get crushed, it finally “warmed” up.
Crushing wouldn’t be an issue in the upper atmosphere, but those sulfuric acid clouds do sound pretty nasty . . .
That’s so cool! Screw Mars. This must be NASA’s next mission.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
Do humans have the technology to fix Venus’s environment. Obviously even if we had the technology the cost would be prohibitive, but if you could ignore that for the moment, could we somehow get rid of the greenhouse effect?
It’s mostly just straightforward chemistry, I expect. What we lack (I think) is the ability to scale up the effort to sufficient size to make any difference.
Actually, didn’t Niven or somebody do a short story related to this topic?
Niven did one where a race of space-living cyborg ship-beings came and did strange things to (drilling a hole through it and evacuating the core, or something like that). I think it was Niven.
Do we have any heat loving sulfur munching extremophiles on earth that’d b up to the task? As long as they could thrive in the atmosphere and reproduce we’d just need to send a handful to significantly clear up the sulfuric acid problem.
Would that help with the temperature? What’d be the next problem?
edit: nvm op called no terreformses
Okay, Niven’s “Becalmed in Hell” was what I was thinking of. (Linked page contains spoilers.)
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