Re: [GZG] Habitable solar systems (Was: [GZG] Real Astroplitics)
From: "KH.Ranitzsch@t..." <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 16:06:51 +0200
Subject: Re: [GZG] Habitable solar systems (Was: [GZG] Real Astroplitics)
> 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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