🚀 go-pugleaf

On Apr 14, 11:18 am, "John \"C\"" <honestj...@centurytel.net> wrote:
> "John "C"" <honestj...@centurytel.net> wrote in message
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> news:OLadnaneUPG1jbzbnZ2dnUVZ_uuqnZ2d@centurytel.net...
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> > "Art Deco" <e...@caballista.org> wrote in message
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> > > Why are you obsessed with "salt", Brad?
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> > He wants to put the flames on your flaming Duckie-friend with salt.
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> > HJ
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> He wants to put "OUT" the flames.
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> <sorry>
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> HJ

Here's the correctly cross-posted reply that excludes those Jewish
Third Reich "alt.fan.art-bell and alt.usenet.kooks" silly groups.

<sorry> is damn right.  What silly flames are they talking about?

Venus does have a great many active lava and geothermally forced mud
flows to deal with, as well as those nifty S8 gas vents that by rights
should be extremely above the thermal consideration of whatever's
merely toasty.  The one thing that unusually dry and hot Co2/S8
environment most likely doesn't have is open flame, any more so than
being the least bit corrosive unless you're planning upon doing a
little mud-flow walking in your Ovglove jumpsuit.

At least Venus has something geothermal cooking within (256 fold more
so than Earth), and otherwise unlimited amounts of easily obtained
energy that's above the surface, and having that surface environment
which is rather nicely shielded against those bad kinds of solar or
cosmic energy influx, as well as extensively moderating whatever's
physically arriving, whereas the only spendy sorts of 'footsteps to
Mars' are those of the dumbfounded and soon to be dead astronauts
walking (perhaps before they ever get there).

I'm afraid that we don't actually get all that much NASA bang for a
mere trillion hard earned dollars or euros these badly inflated days,
therefore doing Mars is going to be little more than an artificial
black hole where our hard earned money, resources and best available
talent goes in and nothing ever comes back out.  At least Venus comes
close enough to being classified as a worthy NEO, at merely 100 fold
the distance of our moon, and that's actually damn close for something
that nearly the mass of Earth, and somewhat tidal locked to boot.
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Brad Guth