Notes On Venus

In the near distant future, a powerful female dictator, Catherine the Great, sets out to leave a legacy matching her ego. Spanning thousands of years, she determines to turn Venus into a garden planet. But not all gardens are safe for people. Along with her loyal, ruthless robot, she embarks on the multi-generational quest. She knows she will never see the completion of the project. She must entrust its completion to her robot legate, but even the robot will not survive to oversee the end of the project.A bioengineered shield can cool the planet, but only for long enough for the first settlers on Venus to finish the job of firing the triad, mountain sized rockets which must move the planet to a stable orbit before the shield fails. The first settlers make it to the surface, but then everything starts to go wrong.Several generations later, the stories of earth seem like a fantasy. The society of Venus has split into three incompatible, but interdependent groups. On earth people have almost forgotten the effort to settle Venus.And then something unexpected happens to bring the two groups together.But the surface of the partially terraformed planet is too hot for the humans of earth and their life on the planet will be measured in days, but without them all life on Venus will be lost. On Venus, a strange object appears in the sky and the adventure begins.You are looking in the wrong direction to settle a planet. Don't look at Mars, look to Venus

In the near distant future, a powerful female dictator, Catherine the Great, sets out to leave a legacy matching her ego. Spanning thousands of years, she determines to turn Venus into a garden planet. But not all gardens are safe for people. Along with her loyal, ruthless robot, she embarks on the multi-generational quest. She knows she will never see the completion of the project. She must entrust its completion to her robot legate, but even the robot will not survive to oversee the end of the project.A bioengineered shield can cool the planet, but only for long enough for the first settlers on Venus to finish the job of firing the triad, mountain sized rockets which must move the planet to a stable orbit before the shield fails. The first settlers make it to the surface, but then everything starts to go wrong.Several generations later, the stories of earth seem like a fantasy. The society of Venus has split into three incompatible, but interdependent groups. On earth people have almost forgotten the effort to settle Venus.And then something unexpected happens to bring the two groups together.But the surface of the partially terraformed planet is too hot for the humans of earth and their life on the planet will be measured in days, but without them all life on Venus will be lost. On Venus, a strange object appears in the sky and the adventure begins.You are looking in the wrong direction to settle a planet. Don't look at Mars, look to Venus

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In the near distant future, a powerful female dictator, Catherine the Great, sets out to leave a legacy matching her ego. Spanning thousands of years, she determines to turn Venus into a garden planet. But not all gardens are safe for people. Along with her loyal, ruthless robot, she embarks on the multi-generational quest. She knows she will never see the completion of the project. She must entrust its completion to her robot legate, but even the robot will not survive to oversee the end of the project. A bioengineered shield can cool the planet, but only for long enough for the first settlers on Venus to finish the job of firing the triad, mountain sized rockets which must move the planet to a stable orbit before the shield fails. The first settlers make it to the surface, but then everything starts to go wrong. Several generations later, the stories of earth seem like a fantasy. The society of Venus has split into three incompatible, but interdependent groups. On earth people have almost forgotten the effort to settle Venus. And then something unexpected happens to bring the two groups together. But the surface of the partially terraformed planet is too hot for the humans of earth and their life on the planet will be measured in days, but without them all life on Venus will be lost. On Venus, a strange object appears in the sky and the adventure begins. You are looking in the wrong direction to settle a planet. Don't look at Mars, look to Venus

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century" (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal. With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.

A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size of the solar system, and paints a vivid portrait of the collaborations, rivalries, and volatile international politics that hindered them at every turn. • From the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century. Through that observation, astronomers could calculate the size of the solar system—but only if they could compile data from many different points of the globe, all recorded during the short period of the transit. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in the remotest corners of the world, only to be thwarted by unpredictable weather and warring armies. Fortunately, transits of Venus occur in pairs; eight years later, they would have another opportunity to succeed. Thanks to these scientists, neither our conception of the universe nor the nature of scientific research would ever be the same.

The Mythology of Venus is a collection of essays that summarizes the archaeoastronomy, calendar associations, religious and cultural icons, and myths identified with the planet Venus. The book concentrates on Western Europe, the Mediterranean, the Near East, and the East from the Paleolithic Age to the Iron Age. It reveals the archetype of a goddess associated with the planet Venus who is identified with transformation, spiritual resurrection, and enlightenment. The characteristics of the goddess are steeped in sexual metaphors which contain images of birth and re-birth, and they reveal a pattern of symbols that follows the journey of the planet Venus through its cycles in the night sky. Moreover, the journey of Venus and the corresponding icons associated with the goddess are part of an intricate pattern of symbolic language that is seen on ancient monuments and on the ancient calendars of several cultures. Temples from France and Ireland to Greece and Malta trace the journey of the planet Venus and the story of the goddess of Venus.