<story><title>Venus is volcanically alive, new find shows</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/venus-is-volcanically-alive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bioemerl</author><text>Fun fact regarding Venus.&lt;p&gt;Unlike the earth which has all sorts of tectonics going on and constant interruptions releasing pressure, on Venus the pressure just builds and builds until the crust can&amp;#x27;t take it anymore and it just pops and you get volcanic activity unlike anything we could probably even imagine.&lt;p&gt;Then it cools and the pressure starts building yet again.&lt;p&gt;I am 100% confident that should human society settle on the planet we will totally ignore the fact that&amp;#x27;s going to happen one day and it will be a amazing catastrophe when it finally does occur.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>So, if we were to establish settlements on Venus we&amp;#x27;d almost certainly make floating ones.  At 50 km above the surface you&amp;#x27;ve got 1 G of gravity, 1 atmosphere of pressure, and 25 C temperatures so you could do outside in just a breath mask.  And while the CO2 atmosphere is unbreathable we can tolerate small additions of CO2 to our atmosphere from leaks and evolution has equipped us to notice excess CO2 in our environment when it gets to dangerous levels.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.humans2venus.org&amp;#x2F;why-venus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.humans2venus.org&amp;#x2F;why-venus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would people floating 50 km up be able to just ignore that sort of vulkanism?  I have no idea but I hope some science fiction author investigates and writes a story on the topic.</text></comment>
<story><title>Venus is volcanically alive, new find shows</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/venus-is-volcanically-alive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bioemerl</author><text>Fun fact regarding Venus.&lt;p&gt;Unlike the earth which has all sorts of tectonics going on and constant interruptions releasing pressure, on Venus the pressure just builds and builds until the crust can&amp;#x27;t take it anymore and it just pops and you get volcanic activity unlike anything we could probably even imagine.&lt;p&gt;Then it cools and the pressure starts building yet again.&lt;p&gt;I am 100% confident that should human society settle on the planet we will totally ignore the fact that&amp;#x27;s going to happen one day and it will be a amazing catastrophe when it finally does occur.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shekelphile</author><text>&amp;gt; I am 100% confident that should human society settle on the planet we will totally ignore the fact that&amp;#x27;s going to happen one day and it will be a amazing catastrophe when it finally does occur.&lt;p&gt;Will never happen without major science fiction grade technology, the atmosphere is way too thick to even think about sending anything larger than a tiny probe into.</text></comment>