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ali-n t1_j8gvrhl wrote

False. There is a high altitude layer (somewhere around 50 km above the surface) that is cool enough and at the right pressure, but none of it is breathable. The scifi about a floating city likely comes from the proposals that have been made to build a floating laboratory around this depth... but that still doesn't mean the atmosphere would be breathable (think of the Venusian atmosphere as an ocean, and the lab would be a submarine floating in it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus

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ali-n t1_j750a6o wrote

The finding is that an immune system protein causes the hardening of arteries, not their clogging. Even when you address clogging people are still majorly dying of heart disease. Your point is still valid, that the solution is to treat the disease rather than just throwing drugs at the symptoms.

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