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Methane Dreams and Venusian Nightmares

Side-by-side comparison of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars against a black background.

Space colonization won’t look like Star Trek’s romantic planets or Bezos’s orbital luxury condos. It will be industrial blimps floating in Venus’s toxic skies, factories churning methane from hellish air, and humanity stubbornly clinging to survival with chemistry and logistics. Our future in the stars will be less heroic saga, more bureaucratic refinery.