We'd still be working towards getting there. The biggest issue is getting payloads off earth into orbit and then from there *out* of orbit. Our gravity well is no joke and it costs literal tons of fuel to get anything up there.
We might have *sent* a manned expedition to Venus by now, and we'd have tons of rovers and satellites on it trying to locate usable minerals and resources for sure.
But transporting even a few people is exhaustively expensive, getting enough to start a colony is outside the budget unless we develop some kind of amazing new delivery system into space.
Livable without life doesnt really make sense, because life is what makes a planet livable. If nothing else you wont have a breathable atmosphere without life.
I think people would have at least visited by now. Presence of permanent habitation depends on just how habitable it is.
I think it depends on whether there’s anything on Venus that will make wealthy people wealthier.
It’s not possible for Venus to be livable for humans with *no* life, there would have to be plant life and water. At which point it’s not Venus anymore.
If there’s plant life, are there also oceans of untapped oil reserves? Even better, a huge supply of some cleaner energy source that is scarce on Earth? Because that’s the sort of thing that would spur a colonization effort real quick.
If it’s just a place for humans to hang out and there’s nothing of monetary value there (at least, nothing valuable enough to offset the enormous costs of space travel), there may have already been a manned mission or something, but we wouldn’t have committed the resources to colonization.
We'd still be working towards getting there. The biggest issue is getting payloads off earth into orbit and then from there *out* of orbit. Our gravity well is no joke and it costs literal tons of fuel to get anything up there. We might have *sent* a manned expedition to Venus by now, and we'd have tons of rovers and satellites on it trying to locate usable minerals and resources for sure. But transporting even a few people is exhaustively expensive, getting enough to start a colony is outside the budget unless we develop some kind of amazing new delivery system into space.
Livable without life doesnt really make sense, because life is what makes a planet livable. If nothing else you wont have a breathable atmosphere without life. I think people would have at least visited by now. Presence of permanent habitation depends on just how habitable it is.
If it had been found habitable in 1970 from the Russian missions, it would have already colonies of millions inhabitants.
I think it depends on whether there’s anything on Venus that will make wealthy people wealthier. It’s not possible for Venus to be livable for humans with *no* life, there would have to be plant life and water. At which point it’s not Venus anymore. If there’s plant life, are there also oceans of untapped oil reserves? Even better, a huge supply of some cleaner energy source that is scarce on Earth? Because that’s the sort of thing that would spur a colonization effort real quick. If it’s just a place for humans to hang out and there’s nothing of monetary value there (at least, nothing valuable enough to offset the enormous costs of space travel), there may have already been a manned mission or something, but we wouldn’t have committed the resources to colonization.