Re: [GZG] Habitable solar systems (Was: [GZG] Real Astroplitics)

["KH.Ranitzsch@xxxxxxxxxxx" <KH.Ranitzsch@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 5/5/06, TONY CHRISTNEY  wrote: Cloud City?
> 
> Not habitable on the surface, but still has "human" settlements.
>  Amusingly enough, this was being examined in RL by some NASA
> scientists a few years ago (I don't know what the status of this
> research is right now, though). I had attended a convention a couple
> years ago where Geoffrey Landis presented what he and a team of
> others at the NASA John Glenn Research Center have been working on
> (long-term) about floating cities in the Venusian atmosphere. 

Did they also discuss ways to make the cities float ?
Except for Zeppelin-like gas filled bags I don't see a way it could be
done with contemporary technology.

Greetings
Karl Heinz


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