{"id":1456,"date":"2020-11-25T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:50:15","slug":"why-venus-makes-more-sense-than-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/why-venus-makes-more-sense-than-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Venus Makes More Sense Than Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I came across this article a few weeks ago and highly recommend it. It makes the case for Venus rather than Mars being the place humans should look to at least temporarily colonize. Yes we would have to live up above the clouds and never actually be exposed to the Venus air, but that is basically what we would have to do on Mars as well, just on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, it is worth a read. Personally, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be first in line to move to either place.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehypothesis.substack.com\/p\/screw-the-mars-hype-heres-why-we\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/https3A2F2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com2Fpublic2Fimages2F6b8ccb8c-2300-4a18-b5f1-55c2cc8d8fda_980x552.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Screw the Mars hype. Here&#8217;s why we should move to Venus. Annalee Newitz<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thehypothesis.substack.com\/p\/screw-the-mars-hype-heres-why-we\">Screw the Mars hype. Here&#8217;s why we should move to Venus. &#8211; The Hypothesis<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this article a few weeks ago and highly recommend it. It makes the case for Venus rather than Mars being the place humans should look to at least temporarily colonize. Yes we would have to live up above the clouds and never actually be exposed to the Venus air, but that is basically what we would have to do on Mars as well, just on the ground. Anyway, it is worth a read. Personally, I don&#8217;t think&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/why-venus-makes-more-sense-than-mars\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-nu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}