text: The author mentions that Venus's atmosphere is 97 percent carbon dioxide. Not only is the atmosphere 97 percent carbon dioxide, it also contains "clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid". Temperatures on Venus average around 800 degrees fahrenheit, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet, which would be impossible to maintian human life, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times what we have here on earth. All of paragraph 3 is just talking about the negative's of Venus, which doesn't support the authors claim that these risks are worth finding out any information.