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On Mars, or on Moon, you have a lot of local materials to build from. A Venusean floating city needs to be brought in completely from the outside.


I can see how you might think that, I suppose, but you do actually have an entire planet full of useful resources at hand, even if they're not ones that you might immediately think of. There are many things that you can reasonably extract or synthesize from the Venusian atmosphere, particularly plastics. This StackExchange answer has more details: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9158/what-useful-m...




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