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🗓️ 6 August 2023
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Let's talk about colonizing Venus....
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0:00.0 | Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. |
0:03.0 | So today we are going to talk about something out of the realm of science fiction. |
0:09.0 | A plan, an idea, a concept, a fleeting thought to colonize Venus, the planet, by the year 2050, |
0:22.1 | a floating colony with a thousand people on it. |
0:27.0 | I mean that is something else. |
0:29.7 | The reason it's something else, you know, you don't often hear people talk about wanting to colonize Venus because |
0:36.0 | it's referred to as Earth's evil twin. Not exactly a very welcoming planet, mainly because like at the equator, like the average |
0:48.6 | temperature is like 842 degrees. and that's hot enough to melt lead. There's no like real water on the planet, but it does rain sulfuric acid. |
1:06.7 | And the atmospheric pressure is, I don't know, 90 times what it is here. So obviously this is not a planet that |
1:19.7 | most people you know really set their sights on when they start thinking about colonizing another |
1:28.4 | planet because I mean that would be really hard and it seems almost out of our depth so so to speak. |
1:38.0 | But there is a person who is hoping to accomplish this by the year 2050. I want you to think about how much would have to go in to |
1:56.1 | accomplishing a goal like this, how much research, how much development, how much |
2:01.3 | innovation would have to occur. |
2:05.0 | A whole lot. |
2:06.0 | I mean it almost seems like that's a planet that we, |
2:10.0 | maybe we should just skip over. |
2:12.0 | Maybe we should not go and try to go to that |
2:17.0 | that planet maybe somewhere else would be better. |
2:19.0 | But the plan is there. |
2:22.0 | The person who has the idea that really wants to do this and is pushing for this |
2:27.6 | innovation is one of the co-founders of Ocean Gate, it's not a joke. That's really who's behind it. That's really who's behind it. That's all the headlines. That's where that comes from. |
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