Venus Is The Second Planet In The Sol System, An Earth-sized Rocky World With A Dense, Hot CO2 Atmosphere

Venus is the second planet in the Sol system, an Earth-sized rocky world with a dense, hot CO2 atmosphere and aggressively volcanic surface. The only habitable zone of Venus is a relatively thin layer of atmosphere some fifty kilometers above the surface, where the temperature and pressure closely resemble conditions at sea level on Earth.

Because of this air layer, the skies of Venus are swarming with aerostat habitats to support its 25.4 million inhabitants (seen here as a scattering of hazy glowing dots in the thin crescent of twilight). The largest aerostat is the capital city of Najam Alsabah, nestled in the lower stratosphere. One of the key drivers of Venus’ growing population is its wealth: the territory has become quite prosperous over the last several centuries due to the harvest and export of valuable, rare chemicals such as nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorous.

Venus is an autonomous territory of the United Sol System, as part of the Inner System Territories. Its flag, a bicolor high-contrast depiction of its vast atmospheric cloud waves, is shown below the main image.

at last, some more worldbuilding stuff! photobash of a future human-inhabited Venus, plus its flag, created for my hard science fiction setting Astra Planeta. done using assets from Space Engine.

Happy holidays, tumblr! (feat. Shyam and Talita)

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Today on Spy Ruins The Classics (with apologies to Aristophanes):

DIONYSUS

Don't mock me, brother: on my life I am in a bad way: such fierce desire consumes me.

HERACLES

Aye, little brother? how?

DIONYSUS

I can't describe it.

But yet I'll tell you in a riddling way.

Have you e'er felt a sudden lust for soup?

HERACLES

Soup! Zeus-a-mercy, yes, ten thousand times.

DIONYSUS

Is the thing clear, or must I speak again?

HERACLES

Not of the soup: I'm clear about the soup.

DIONYSUS

Well, just that sort of pang devours my heart.

And no one shall persuade me not to go.

HERACLES

Do you mean below, to Hades?

DIONYSUS

And lower still, if there's a lower still.

HERACLES

What on earth for?

DIONYSUS

I want soup, you see.

HERACLES

What do you mean, you "want soup"?

DIONYSUS

I mean I want soup!

HERACLES

WHY ARE YOU BUYING SOUP IN HADES?!

DIONYSUS

FUCK YOU!

just an update: Webb is up and away safely! it's on a two-week course toward high orbit, following an absolutely flawless launch by ArianeSpace!

anyone else fucking stoked for the James Webb Space Telescope launch?

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THE GOAT HAS BURNED I REPEAT THE GOAT HAS BURNED