Russia's space agency chief declares Venus a "Russian planet"

[JonLP24]

Moscow — If there is life on Venus, it might want to start learning Russian. The boss of Russia's government space agency has claimed it as a "Russian planet."

The bold territorial claim comes on the heels of scientific research suggesting life could exist on Earth's celestial neighbor, the second planet from the sun.

Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin, who's known for espousing unconventional scientific views — and for frequently sarcastic anti-Western rhetoric — said this week that Russia wants to send its own mission to Venus, in addition to an already-proposed joint venture with the United States called "Venera-D."

"We think that Venus is a Russian planet, so we shouldn't lag behind," Rogozin, a former deputy prime minister, told reporters on Tuesday. He noted that the Soviet Union was "the first and the only one" to land a spacecraft on Venus.

CBS News
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/venus-russian-planet-space-agency-chief-claims/

[doc03]

1. Trump should claim Ur anus

[TEB]

2. Deploy space force

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. Sorry, "I got dibs" doesn't work in

interplanetary exploration.

Thanks for playing, Vlad.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Good luck on that.

I understand the atmosphere on Venus is so hot and so toxic and so corrosive, that anything sent into it dissolves into nothing in a very short time.

[NickB79]

7. At 30 miles up, it's 90F and 1 Earth atmospheric pressure

A breathable nitrogen/oxygen mix is buoyant in the Venusian atmosphere. The dense atmosphere protects against solar radiation. As long as you harden the exterior of the blimp or floating station from the sulfuric acid, humans could survive there.

https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/23/tech/innovation/tomorrow-transformed-venus-blimp-city/index.html

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. But on the surface of the planet, it's like being some 3,000 feet under the ocean,

and with a totally nonsurvivable environment.

I do realize that if humans survive long enough, we will probably some day have the technology to somehow live there.

[deminks]

5. A planet full of solid, liquid and gaseous toxins and poisons.

I can see why Pootey is salivating.

[woodsprite]

6. Putin and tRump have a joint mission to Venus

With the abbreviation V-D.

I had to check and see if it was from The Onion.