Re: Venus Air****ps / by Brad Guth

On Jun 9, 11:54 am, "Keith Willshaw" <keithnos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "BradGuth" <bradg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Just for a little extra topic argument sake, on behalf of rigid
> > composite air****ps:
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>  >http://www.deepoceanexpeditions.com/****ps_3_2.html
>  > =93The Deep Rover 1002 submersibles have been pressure tested to 1.25
>
> > times their maximum diving depth (1,250 meters or 4,100 feet) with a
> > designed safety factor of four times and a theoretical crush depth of
> > over 4,000 metres (13,120 feet).=94
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> A trivial design problem compared with Venusian conditions.
> The pressure vessel on those submersibles would MELT
> on the Venusian surface while the sulphuric acid droplets
> suspended higher in the atmosphere make that a very unpleasant
> environment for acryllic plastics.
>
> At any altitude within a meaningful fraction of the Venusian
> atmosphere the temperatures are high enough to fry electronics
> without a powerful cooling system.. IRC the record for duration
> of any package landed on the surface is around 2 hours
>
> Keith

What a total wuss, and obviously dumbfounded to boot.  You say melt?

You've got to be kidding.  Is Venus suddenly into geothermally
roasting itself well above 811 K?

If not 811+ K, where's the big ass insurmountable problem?

Say again, what the nighttime seasonal temperature is at 25+km?

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serves as an example and in science it's not good to derive
information from a sample size of one.=94