[anigbrowl]

I've wondered about that too. While it would be hard to float any kind of space colony there even with giant dirigibles, I've always felt that Venus' thick, gaseous atmosphere offers tremendous long-term potential, and I don't understand why we don't fire more probes at it. There are extremophile bacteria on earth that live in hot or chemically hostile conditions, many of which are anaerobic. It seems like we could try some long-term terraforming efforts at little short-term cost.