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by Simon_O_Rourke 266 days ago
Just don't fall off the side of those platforms.

It'd be interesting to see what additional "personal atmospheric floatation" devices would be needed.

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You can't because you need to be encapsulated in a balloon to keep the toxic atmosphere out.
EVAs are still likely necessary. Tethering would be useful.
Indeed, though to keep it interesting we should put pinholes through every tenth one
I see a new action/thriller space movie on the horizon.
Cue Sandra Bullock for At the End of My Tether.

That Movie Guy Voice: Above a world ... where the atmosphere will eat the flesh off your body ... and crush your eyeballs flat, only a thin kevlar tether stands between you ... and eternity...