Bravo! Great point and thread!

I always wondered why we always looked at Mars and not Venus? Is it because men are from mars and women from Venus and only men work at N.A.S.A.?


.............. Alright... That was a lousey drop in...

Great post! Good eye opener.

Originally posted by Jkd Up

I always wondered why we always looked at Mars and not Venus?

I am pretty sure its because of the extreme atmospheric pressure that Venus posses.

Its a vary hostile environment, we currently don't have the level of technology needed to survive the pressures for long.

However Mar's (while still hostile), doesn't have extreme atmospheric pressures to deal with, making it a more attainable goal.

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[edit on 10/22/2009 by Alaskan Man]

Originally posted by Jkd Up
I always wondered why we always looked at Mars and not Venus? Is it because men are from mars and women from Venus and only men work at N.A.S.A.?

Well, that's an interesting point. We've had 43 Missions that included Venus, and 18 of those failed, for a 42% failure rate compared to the 52% failure rate with Mars (although if you take into consideration that the majority of those 43 Missions to Venus were Flybys, the actual failure rate is significantly higher for all other mission types).

Venus' dense atmosphere consists almost entirely (97%) of carbon dioxide (CO2), with clouds containing droplets of sulfuric acid along with compounds of chlorine and fluorine. These precipitate an acid rain called virga. In the upper part of the atmosphere, clouds swirl by at a rate of 300 km/h, driven by fierce winds. This massive blanket of carbon dioxide is also responsible for a runaway greenhouse effect that heats the planet's surface to an average temperature of 467°C (872°F) – hot enough to melt lead.

And high temperature, sulfuric acid atmosphere, and high winds are the least of the troubles with Venus. Venus also has surface pressure 90 times greater than that on Earth...something we've only recently been able to counteract (by comparison the deepest robotic dive on Earth which happened just this year was at 35,761 feet below Sea Level, being able to withstand 1,100 times the pressure of the surface pressure on Earth).

We are ready for Mars now, but we still need more practice at deep sea exploration before we are ready for Venus.

Wow a failure rate consideration.
The whole forces of the universe have been ignored to see man's
flight by air shifting propeller planes to jet planes and rockets
when the forces were realized years before.
Why stop vehicles of the elite now and find true natures forces.
Go to Mars NOW.
Ask the astronauts if they think its a go.
I just got the hear their answer before tale ends.
Once the truth about the Moon can't be found we will be off to Mars.
Electrically generated scalar mechanical forces are greater than gases
in any form. Gases are good for generating the Electrical forces.
Wow, we got it all backwards.
Just follow the elite, thats the way they do things.