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#1 2016-04-08 22:34:09
- Tom Kalbfus
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The hard stuff: Surface domes on Venus
My guess is a dome, about 100 to 500 meters in diameter is about right. It is hard to keep small objects cool on Venus, but a dome is half a sphere, probably the rest of the sphere would be underground to insulate against heat from coming up from underneath. A sphere minimizes surface area of a given volume. And domes also use the arch principle to hold out the pressure of the atmosphere, which would be about 920 tons per square meter!
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