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| Apr 7, 2016 at 5:18 | comment | added | cst1992 | It was a titanium lens cap, so I'm sure it'd have been fine. | |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 22:32 | comment | added | SF. | @cst1992: The experiment didn't go as planned, sure, but I'm still curious about the results! What happens to hardness of a lens cap after several months in space, descent through Venus atmosphere and being thrown onto its ground... was it a putty due to heat or did it harden due to the pressure or did it crumble after months of radiation and cold followed by hot acid treatment? | |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 12:14 | comment | added | cst1992 | @SF. That was a mistake. Give the poor guys a break. | |
| Apr 5, 2016 at 16:34 | comment | added | SF. | ...and then we performed the most extreme, expensive and remote measurement of hardness of a lens cover. | |
| Apr 5, 2016 at 12:04 | history | edited | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2016 at 8:45 | comment | added | cst1992 |
@Xen2050 would burn and crush my dinner even if it didn't would you have liked to eat dinner laced with sulphuric acid?
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| Apr 4, 2016 at 22:02 | comment | added | JDługosz | The early craft were not sent unprepared! That it was hot enough to melt solder was known during the planning stages. radio observations, remember, not touching it and saying "ow". | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 21:12 | comment | added | King-Ink | I think clouds of Venus are a still a better bet for colonization. Abundant energy, free industrial chemicals, actually having an atmosphere, near earth gravity, easier water manufacture [2(H2SO4) + heat = 2(H2O + SO2) +O], not being colder than Antarctica etc etc etc. I think venus fell into disfavor because it was a Soviet project and the West staked its claim on Mars. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 18:31 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | Venus is quite nasty. But we didn't really know how nasty it was until we landed something there, so... | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 18:30 | comment | added | Xen2050 | Wow, 455 °C to 475 °C and 75 to 100 atmospheres of pressure (I think that means 1,100 to 1,400 PSI) that's pretty hostile compared to the inside of an oven, would burn and crush my dinner | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 18:15 | comment | added | wedstrom | Public perception is a powerful thing. If Venus is popular or cool in the public mind, it will be high on the list. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 16:28 | comment | added | GdD | Many early (40s and 50s) Sci-fi had human colonies on Venus, described as having a tropical atmosphere. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:55 | history | answered | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |