![]() ![]() Even tourists in strap-ons, unused to flight, can lumber around. On Venus, of course, nearly every animal 60 kg and under can fly, or at least glide on skinflaps. It's amazing birds survive on Terra at all. To keep up with the sun, one must fly about 700 km a day, quite feasible for a dedicated flier, who can average 90-100 kph, just like migrating geese on Terra-and geese must struggle along in stronger gravity and thin air, just 30% of Venus's sea-level pressure. ![]() Named after the "snowbirds" of North America (migrants who fled its snowy pre-Melt winters), the rainbirds of Ishtar flock to the north coast with sunrise, and fill the coastal towns, then spread their wings at dusk and hop south over the great mountains, where the nights are drier and lighter, leaving the off-season towns to melancholy authors and other indoor sorts.īut the migratory champions are the much rarer daybirds, who circle the Arctic Sea ahead of the night, living in perpetual day, riding the steady winds like surfers on Old Earth. It's led to a peculiar settlement pattern: the rainbirds. And the region's Mediterranean climate typically means a mild, dry cloudless week of low sun, then a week of dark cloudy nights with fog and drizzle. Ishtar nights get very dark up north, for the bulge of the planet and the mountains to the south hide most of the light from the equatorial rings. Strip away the forests and seas if you like, but these mountains, plateaus, valleys and basins are there now. Oh, and while you're touring, remember-this is real. South Ishtar is much lower, warmer, and wetter, climaxing in Megazoic rainforests on the southeastern shore. ![]() Northern Ishtar has a cool, mild, fairly dry climate (think coastal California) central Ishtar is high, cold, and fairly dry-grassland, desert, alpine tundra, or open pine forest. ![]() Eastern Ishtar is lower but much larger, and today it has some of the biggest lakes and longest rivers on Venus. In the west, Lakshmi Plateau resembles Tibet, with some of the highest peaks on Venus and a truly Terran continental feel. Venus Unveiled homepage - new? prepare for shocks - map - peoples - gazetteer - glossary - more worlds? Planetocopia! if I don’t, it’s an admission that I’m about to die.THE WORLD DREAM BANK: Venus Unveiled: Ishtar ‘I know that it’s possible I will die and leave laurene with a half-built boat,’ he said. by then the boat was under construction by the dutch custom yacht builders feadship, but jobs was still fiddling with the design.” ‘as at an apple store, the cabin windows were large panes, almost floor to ceiling, and the main living area was designed to have walls of glass that were forty feet long and ten feet high. he had gotten the chief engineer of the apple stores to design a special glass that was able to provide structural support. maintaining his ‘clutterfree’ philosophy, the interior cabin is equipped with a set-up of seven 27-inch iMacs for its control room.Īs described in an excerpt from walter isaacson’s steve jobs biography: reportedly a collaborative effort between jobs and philippe starck, the ship measures about 230 to 260 feet long, made entirely of aluminum. ‘venus’, the yacht that was being designed by steve jobs up until his death a little over a year ago, has made its first appearance as a finished product in the city of aalsmeer in the netherlands. ![]()
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