For some time I'd been pondering how a cloudcity over Venus might gain anything, like, hard. Lately I've been wondering if the rest of the solar-system should pitch in to build a ring to shade the planet to dry-ice temperatures, so eventually to land at least (pressure-rated) robots onto the surface. L Neil Smith's megastructure was just to nuke the whole planet into literal pieces.
Well - now we got further readings as to what's in those acid clouds. They're adding: iron sulfates. Rhomboclase has the added bonus there's hydrogen in there. We like water (and nitrates).
I have to wonder now about other metals in the clouds. Iron is visible just because it is common, as well as rustable. How're the usual low-melty suspects: lead, zinc, and tin? How's copper?
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