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

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lOn 5/5/06,
KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de> wrote:
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> > 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.

Yes, but I don't remember all the details, and I didn't take notes (not
realizing the depth of the presentation was to have). But more or less
what
The_Beast said I have vague recollections as being presented.

Mk