George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Thoughts and prayers for the billionaires... 🚀
Martijn Tonies ✅@georgetakei Space is easier than deep sea though. :)
J3RN 
@mt @georgetakei I'm not sure if you're joking, but the atmosphere of Venus:
- is ~800°F
- moves at about 220 mph
- has clouds of incredibly corrosive sulfuric acid
So sure, getting to orbit might be easier than getting to the deep sea, but going to Venus is signing up to be submerged in fast-spinning, boiling Draino (and that's an understatement).
Pop Justy 
@j3rn @mt @georgetakei The reason the person indicated floating is that oxygen floats (is less dense) than the Venusian atmosphere. So filling a balloon with oxygen would float above most of the dangers on the planet.
The idea that’s “floated” around is to then put people inside the floating balloon. The thing is, you float above most dangers. There’s still caustic vapors at that altitude.
@j3rn @mt @georgetakei We currently don’t have materials that would last long in that environment. So eventually holes would develop in the balloon without constant repair.
Some have pitched the idea of self healing materials that have to be constantly “fed”, or robots that constantly repair, etc.
All of that is very unproven technology and there is no telling what performance characteristic the material would have.
@j3rn @mt @georgetakei And that’s just the basic problems. A floating colony would have difficulty reaching the surface for any kind of resource, so that colony would be 100% dependent on Earth 61 million km away.
Not to mention that water on the planet is speculatively trapped in pockets deep under the surface, which would be near impossible to drill for.
Number6 
@pop_justy @j3rn @mt @georgetakei But it still may make more sense to go to Venus than Mars. Venus is only 3 months away, compared to Mars 9 months. On Mars, astronauts will have to wear the same bulky pressure suits they did on the moon. They'll have to live underground to avoid radiation, and will have to work out 2 hours a day in order to maintain their health.