text: So the Author makes a strong statement of how we can't survive on Venus, but he has ways to survive this hostile planet. The Author says, "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow sciencists to float above the fray." The Author then says that they mean that they would have a vehicle to hover 30 or more miles above the surface of the planet. It would still be aroung 170 degrees fahrenheit, but the pressure would be as if earth's sea level.