"Derisiveness"? How the heck did I get that from corrosiveness? I must have blindly autocorrected. Anyway, apologies to all for the error.

More specifically, high pressure CO2 is a solvent. It can be used as an eco-friendly dry cleaning solvent, for example. At the temperatures and pressures on Venus a lot of materials are vulnerable to it.

So about 14 square feet of ballroom then.

Among the ways that the surface of Venus is a hell world, being radioactive is not one of them. It's exactly the opposite.

Insertion is absolutely not an issue. You can slow something right down using the same techniques as in Earth's atmosphere in the upper levels of the atmosphere of Venus before you get to the hell layers. Then you just drop from there. You don't even need a parachute since the atmosphere is so dense. As you said, it's the extreme heat and pressure. Of course you were also right about the derisiveness, just not from acid rain. Other things that would not be problematic at Earth pressures are corrosive on Venus, such as CO2.

Depending on the scale of your operation, there is always the possibility of an HVDC cable from around 50+ KM. With the heat, etc. it would lose a fair amount of power before it got to the ground, but it would mean you wouldn't need special batteries.

Replying as AC apparently to hide that you're ambrandt12... you know that's kind of weird, right? Are you trying to act like you have some sort of community support in your assertions? I mean, I'm not even bothering at this point with what either you or drinkypoo are actually claiming. It just jumped out at me when an AC suddenly jumped into the conversation with the exact same writing style.

To be clear, there is no acid rain at the surface of Venus. It can be corrosive for other reasons, but not from acid rain.

Not saying that certain individuals like the prime minister or the defense minister speak for the country itself, or for the individual members of the population. It is important to distinguish between leadership and the actual poeple. However statements like "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly" and vowing to eliminate everything do sort of have that war crimesy taste to them.

The logical problem you have there is that either the US has achieved regime change and the former Ayatollah _was_ the responsible party, or the current regime is still the responsible party and it's a lie that regime change was achieved.

Basically though, the regime in Iran is certainly terrible. Most people who are against the war would still be quite happy to see them go and for Iran to transition to a stable, non-authoritarian nightmare democracy. However, we've also been around the block a few times and seen this all before and we recognize that people who tout the defense of the Iranian people from massacres one minute, then fall in line with a civilization dying tonight (or any night) are hardly likely to be the ones who finally succeed in mass bombing an autocratic state into becoming a liberal democracy.

Just to be clear here. You are being satirical right? It's so hard to tell these days.

Or you just keep them wrapped in insulation with a heater keeping the electronics at Venus temps from the moment they are manufactured until they land on the surface, at which point you shut off the heater. The temperature on Venus, while super hot, is also very stable. You just have to maintain that stability before it gets there.

I would say that's probably not such a huge challenge since silver solders melting points start around 618 Celcius and the temp on Venus is actually "only" around 464 Celcius. As a general rule, you don't want a solder too close to its melting point for both electrical and mechanical reasons, but that seems far enough away to be reasonable.

I am wondering though if, even if these chips can take the temperature, if the combination of temperature and pressure might not be an issue. Of course, you could deal with pressure by putting the electronics core inside a pressure vessel. Of course, if you're going to do that, you could just use more temperature sensitive electronics and put them inside a double pressure vessel with fluid cooling in the center vessel and an insulating vacuum in the outer vessel and a multistage heat pump/exchange system from the inner vessel to the outside to cool the electronics.

That's only if the pressure is an issue, of course. If not, then you could be golden with your super high temp chips. Of course, there are some serious questions about long-term operation at those temperatures. How long are the chips good for? A protected electronics module in a pressure vessel might still be the way to go.

What can I say except that in the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Look, the codes are printed in dark red on light red in the manual. There's no way anyone could photocopy that.