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At the surface:

1) The temperature can reach up 450°C

2) There is no oxygen.

3) The pressure is ninety times as great as on Earth.

== == While the temperature and pressure on the surface are far just too great for colonization, there is an area 50km above the surface where the temperature and pressure are Earth-like, the winds circle the planet in 100-hour "days", and the gravity is just less than earth-like. Because the gases there are heavier than Earth's atmosphere, there is the possibility of "floating cities" kept in place and following the prevailing winds much like present day hot air balloons.

Your bubble wouldn't need to be incredibly strong, but it would need to be resistant to sulfuric acid. And you would need oxygen and food starting with materials shipped form Earth. In return, you could use abundant solar energy and sulfuric acid as resources for your own industries.

See the Wikipedia article on the Colonization of Venus for more information.

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