Why do we not deploy airships to explore other planets?

Geoffrey Landis is a proponent of setting up these colonies. The fast winds in the Venus upper atmosphere are no problem for floating balloons or airships that move with them, indeed they help, they mean you have a “day” of only four Earth days. read more

If we find life on Mars, our closest planet, and the only one we can currently look for life, this would be an amazing thing. It would raise the odds of life in other solar systems from "probable" to "extremely likely". And finally we do it because we can, and because it is an activity worthy of humanity. read more

As children we used to get a balloon at the circus, and then suddenly, we're magically mystified by the ability of a toy to do the non-obvious and seemingly impossible: Float in something that we ignore and pay no attention to until something floats "in" it. read more