How the Soviets put a lander on Venus
I had a dream once that life started on Venus, multiplied like crazy and fucked up the planet with overproduction of shitloads of greenhouse gasses ending in the acidic madness that is present today, and then jumping over to Earth.<p>In retrospect this does not seem THAT insane and I really do wonder why we have not focused more on Venus as a whole. It seems to me that in the long term it might be easier to terraform a planet like Venus than it is to terraform a planet like mars. Stripping something away is often easier than building it from scratch - and Venus has a whole lot of atmosphere on it!<p>It could also just be that my brain finds the idea of T-Rex's using their little tiny arms to operate computers and spaceships on the journey from ancient Venus to Earth extra hilarious.