NASA's Incredible, Futuristic, And Totally Real Plan To Establish A Human Colony On Venus

NASA has plans to live on Venus. Seriously. In fact, up in the clouds above its scorching surface, Venus is "probably the most Earth-like environment that's out there," Chris Jones of NASA told Evan Ackerman at IEEE Spectrum. Forget Mars and its frigid temperatures and thin atmosphere when we can live like gods, afloat in the clouds of Venus. Jones is part of the Space Mission Analysis Branch of NASA's Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate at Langley Research Center in Virginia. The researc...