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marcorossi on Sept. 4, 2023
I had a lot of doubts on how to “park” a spaceship on a floating city, and also what kind of flight system could the Saru-ichi use in the athmosphere, and the floating balloons seem the most likely solution.
marcorossi on Sept. 4, 2023
I had a lot of doubts on how to “park” a spaceship on a floating city, and also what kind of flight system could the Saru-ichi use in the athmosphere, and the floating balloons seem the most likely solution.
Othosmops at 2:30PM, Sept. 4, 2023
A bit of nitpicking: I'm not convinced if balloons are such a great solution. It would probably not be possible to stabilise the ship: Venus' high atmosphere is characterised by strong winds and a breathtakingly fast super rotation. A Venus station would also have to permanently expend enormous masses of energy to keep its position steady.
marcorossi at 3:03PM, Sept. 4, 2023
The Venus station would not stay still, it would flow with the wind (this is based on an actual project https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus see floating cities) with the advantage that, flowing with the wind, they would get a night/day cycle every 4 days instead than every 118. The ship is a different story, as the balloons should work on Venus but also in other planet with heavy atmosphere (it would make no sense to have a cargo that can only land on Venus). I'll just assume that Aaron/the local Doxa computer are able to calculate a route that makes use of the wind instead than going against it.