Gladdens my heart to see you all having so much fun with your strawmen. Who is saying any of this?

I expect collecting that purified iron off an object screeching through the thick venusian atmosphere at Mach 10 is a minor matter for the boffins to work out... ;)

We could yet have a successor or multiple successors. They could potentially fare better than us, if they are intelligent, for example. Even our current level of intelligence would be decent if we didn't have to keep re-inventing the wheel, and if they didn't have our cognitive biases.

Natural Selection is not operating on us anymore. We are evolving, of course, genes are still being mixed and survival is still non-random. But it isn't evolution in the traditional sense.

Congrats on being second only to APK in terms of ACs who are immediately identifiable by incessantly spouting the same shit.

It will get significantly hotter long before it increases in size. The biosphere on Earth might well adapt to the higher temperatures, as it has been doing for several billion years already (the sun today is hotter than it was a couple of billion years ago).

The Sun won't turn into a red giant for several billion years. It's not a pressing problem. Oh yes, and Mercury not Venus.

One of Arthur C Clarke's books - I think it was the last Odyssey one - featured people slinging comets from the kuiper belt towards Venus. No idea how realistic that is, but they were expecting it to take centuries or even millennia, can't quite remember now. I imagine the impacts and ejecta from the impacts would have all sorts of effects on the surface.

It'll be fine. We and many animals won't, but that's not a factor for the biosphere over tens or hundreds of millions of years. Lots of new niches for species to diversify into.

You can make water from sulfuric acid pretty easily. Probably by mixing it with something basic like sodium hydroxide.

It's cooler 65k up where he's talking about. And most of the sulfuric acid haze is below that.

Yeah but the important people have money, so it's OK.

Caring this much isn't cool. At all. ;)

If the government there was interested in helping out consumers, they would make Verizon wholesale those lines out to other companies. But of course there are too many brown envelopes whizzing around for that kind of communist shit.

Funny how I can be almost certain that you're an American by politicising this scientific issue. Everybody else in the world accepts the science, you don't, because you don't like it. Yeah, childish as fuck, but what can you do. That dark hippy conspiracy sure is pervasive eh? lol