SpaceRip presents “Cloud Cities of Venus: Settling Earth’s
Twin”, by David Sky Brody, narrated by David Grinspoon.
At 30 miles altitude above Venus, the atmospheric pressure
is about the same as Earth, with atmosphere of carbon dioxide and clouds of
sulfuric acid.
But the film imagines cities, of blimps (maybe 1000 meters
diameter) strung together. If a large balloon
is pierced at atmospheric pressure, it does not deflate immediately and it can
be repaired.
Robots would be sent to the surface of Venus to mine for raw
materials.
The film also discusses terraforming, even of Venus, which
would take millennia.
GIF -- embedded from Wikipedia, click for attribution, topographical map of the surface of Venus
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