why explore Mars but not Venus?

[OIKOS]

i think venus is better.... it is smaller and not as cold as Mars.....personally, i think venus is more likely to hab living things..... what do u think?

:gift:

**EDIT** ok guys.... i think i get the point now.....

 

[Evadman]

Venis would be nearly impossible due to the atmosphere. It can be done, but not for any appreciable amount of time.

 

[MacBaine]

1) Toxic clouds = very thick
2) Hot as a bitch
3) You're more likely to make an understandable post than for it to have life

 

[Ryan]

It's also much hotter - anything we put on it would literally explode, or dissolve in venus' acid rain.

 

[Lager]

OIKOS needs to be placed in Pluto with Lance Bass.

 

[Schadenfroh]

poison gas maybe?

 

[Chiropteran]

So in other words, Venus isn't much different from Southeast DC in the summer?

 

[Shooters]

sulfuric acid clouds
up to 600C temperature (hottest in the solar system)

Edit
Also, one Martian day in very close to one Earth day, about 24 and a half hours if I remember correctly. But, one Venus day is 243 Earth Days. Interestingly enough, it takes only 225 Earth days for Venus to orbit the sun. So, if we were on Venus, we would be celebrating new years more than once between sun rises...that would be weird.

 

[ajpa123]

sulpuric acid clouds and a surface temp of about 450 degrees centigrade are two good reasons!
Venus is better if you're a ball of fire though

 

[IamElectro]

Venus has surface temps of almost 800 degrees. Venus also has a very thick and heavy atmosphere. This creates a lot of pressure (about 100 times sea level pressure on Earth). A human-being would need a heavy protection, just as humans going to great pressures under the sea need a submarine. Venus also has corrosive clouds of sulfuric acid

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

You mean aside from bursting into flames before we actually get to land on the planet's surface?

 

[dighn]

bah all you need is just some metaphasic shielding.

 

[StormRider]

Cause Venus rhymes with Penis and geeks can't help but giggle at it...

 

[ultimatebob]

Venus probes tend not to last very long before they burn up. Russia dropped a few of them (the Venera missions) on Venus, and none of them lasted longer than a day. They got a few pictures, though.

 

[IanthePez]

Because Women are from Venus and we don't want any more

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: OIKOS
i think venus is better.... it is smaller and not as cold as Mars.....personally, i think venus is more likely to hab living things..... what do u think?

:gift:

I think you need to get a freakin' clue before you post stupid opinions like that...

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Put one hand in ice and the other in molten lead.

Come back and post the results.

 

[wyvrn]

Lets explore Uranus instead.



Hahahahaha. Ahem....

 

[fumbduck]

Originally posted by: wyvrn
Lets explore Uranus instead.



Hahahahaha. Ahem....

I think OIKOS should explore his own anus with a chain saw

 

[Pastfinder]

Go here, for info and pics from the Venera Missions. Basically anything that lands on Venus becomes a pellet of junk anywhere from minutes to hours. The Soviet probes had diamond coated camera lenses due to the pressure.

 

[Hammer]

when i see oikos, i think sabot shells are a very good thing...

 

[tweakmm]

Please...please....please go to Venus and tell us how it is.

 

[Kenazo]

Lol. funny thread. I had come in to bash him for even suggesting it too.

 

[Pastfinder]

No no, I don't mean to bash Oikos, if that is what my post implied. Personally I think it would be bad assed if the US could make a lander that actually worked for more than an hour or two on Venus. Then we could crush the Soviets at yet another thing

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
Please...please....please go to Venus and tell us how it is.