>>13736680Yeah terraforming Venus would need to deal with the heat first, then the CO2, then some of the nitrogen. I doubt Venus terraforming will ever happen anyway because by the time we had the industry in space capable of building a big enough shade swarm and either removing the CO2 or bringing in the necessary amount of calcium or just processing the stuff using Venusian resources, we would definitely have progressed to the point of having trillions of people living in rotating space habitats anyway, so Venus would be more valuable as a source of raw materials than a habitable world anyway.
Venusian colonization in my opinion would look like a big ass swarm of rotating space habitats above and around Venus, built mostly using materials from Venus apart from whatever was shipped there originally in the colonization waves, supplying a large portion of the solar system's carbon and nitrogen and bulk building materials. Very very few people (proportionally) will actually live on Venus in any aspect, maybe a couple billion maximum, while the supermajority of people there will be living on the habitat swarm.
