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ali-n t1_j8gvrhl wrote

False. There is a high altitude layer (somewhere around 50 km above the surface) that is cool enough and at the right pressure, but none of it is breathable. The scifi about a floating city likely comes from the proposals that have been made to build a floating laboratory around this depth... but that still doesn't mean the atmosphere would be breathable (think of the Venusian atmosphere as an ocean, and the lab would be a submarine floating in it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus

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billbucket t1_j8ww35r wrote

The neat part is that our breathable atmosphere would be the lift gas for such a floating laboratory.

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