Morten Reistad <first@last.name> wrote in
news:6k4io6-ed3.ln1@laptop.reistad.name: 

In article <h946hk$mfe$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
Nightcrawler <Dirtydeeds@dirtcheap.net> wrote:

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In fact, anything sent there dies.  Machine or biological.

The subject is a stupid "what if", anyway.  Sort of like the crap you
would hear from a 6 year old.

Indeed. The closest to realism observer craft would be
a dirigible, not exposed to 90 bar, but only to 3-4. 
But it would be "plankton", unmanouverable for all 
practical purposes. But it could tell us a lot about
Venus by remote sensing.

Thank you.  Your post almost made me wish I had an interest in this 
subject.

walksalone whom will stick with mythology.  There are enough head spinners 
in that to keep me bemused.

CYNIC, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as 
they are, not as they ought to be.  Hence the custom among the 
Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
  Devil's dictionary