Exploring Venus with Tethered Balloon Systems
In recent times, there has been a growing interest in exploring Venus, the second planet from the Sun, notable for its extreme atmospheric conditions. This article delves into the innovative plans being proposed for exploring the surface of Venus using a tethered balloon system, a concept known as the Tethered Observatory for Balloon-based Imaging and Atmospheric Sampling (TOBIAS). This initiative is supported by NASA’s Institute of Advanced Concepts Phase I program and aims to overcome the challenging environmental conditions of Venus.
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What a cool scheme. I want to live in Octavia Butler’s world, since it’s the best vision of the future that is still congruent with current reality. Star Trek sure isn’t happening
Does she have a more upbeat view than Parable of The Sower? I could use some optimistic sci fi (having run out of Becky Chambers).
Not that I know of, but the parable of the sower is hopeful to me, in a realistic fight-the-good-fight-to-build-a-better-world-you-will-never-see sort of way. I prefer that gritty realism over pollyanna optmism or denial. It is a story where people found meaning greater than themselves.
I love Becky Chambers vision of a world where people have relearned how to be decent again. So much better to imagine that world than the cyberpunk crap we have too much of.
Don’t forget that in StarTrek had gone through WW3 before Cochrane’s first flight
Yeah I know but the eugenics wars were supposed to happen in 1997, then that day came and went and they have retconned and contorted and split realities to the point that the pro-social vision is deeply obscured.
There are still elements of the vision that they give lip service to and I enjoy it as entertainment. But it has lost the thread and no longer serves as inspiration to transcend this race to the bottom we are all in.
I personally am very hungry for near-future fiction that shows we can build a better world if we choose to. Yet I acknowledge that is the hardest kind of fiction to do well. The future catches up quickly as Star Trek shows.
