I wish one thousand billionaires `a very pleasant morning`

carlitoscohones, 9 months ago

May Guillermo Söhnlein be the Henry Hudson of Venus.

fasterandworse, 9 months ago

is stealth comrade theory a thing? I googled it and the only result is your thread on masto https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/e3930743-1c00-47d0-867c-f820e5e3997e.png

dgerard, 9 months ago

I probably coined it, in response to the theory that Stockton Rush (what a Rand-ass name) was actually a comrade trying to reduce our count of billionaires

fasterandworse, 9 months ago

ok it’s a good one. It can apply to musk’s unintentional mask-off style of capitalism that other ceos will simp for and copy.

anyway, because I love sharing podcasts - this two-parter about Rush is gold: iheart.com/…/part-one-stockton-rush-inventor-of-1…iheart.com/…/part-two-stockton-rush-inventor-of-1…

DreamySweet, 9 months ago

Make the space station out of carbon fiber too. I’m sure everything will be fine!

dgerard, 9 months ago

the Venera probes failed because they were sent up by commies, our captains of industry will effortlessly outshine their Marxist works

kuna, 9 months ago

In all seriousness, I’ve heard this idea before in SF-adjacent circles; the point is that a gas mixture that resembles Earth’s atmosphere is buoyant on Venus at an altitude where the pressure is around 1 Earth’s atmosphere.

Now, actually living there, suspended over some hot hellscape in a machine built by these guys of all options… lol. Lmao, even.

cstross, 9 months ago

@kuna Also note that at that altitude, the temperature in Venus's stratosphere is a positively freezing 30 ℃ or so.

The real problem is that Venus is short on hydrogen, so getting back up into orbit from the Venusian stratosphere … well, good luck with that.

(It'd make a good platform for a crewed research station, but a lousy prospect for colonization.)