Living in the clouds

Isn’t it strange to think of settlements on clouds where there is no firmament and the initial feeling would be to fall down. There are gaseous planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune where we hav’nt much thought about settlement due to the hugh gravity (probably you would be not able to move much) or the combination of gases thriving there. Scientists have always wanted alternatives locations of migrating(since the Earth would one day be depleted of its sources) to space and settling on clouds too are being given their due. Fantasies are the source of realities. PK the recent Hindi movie shows a spaceship embedded in a cloud swirling in the sky and settling on a Rajastani desert from where emerges the hero from the thin mist of clouds. Bespin life zone in the movie Empire Strikes Back has a cloud city below layers of metallic gas where Humans and Ugnaughts live. Tyche nickname was given to a hypothetical gas giant located in the solar system Oort clouds. Now NASA’s HAVOC (High Altitude Venus Operational Concept) will explore to make a living on the cloud cover of Venus which very much resembles the Earth’s gravity, pressure and a more powerful solar light. Google cloud save has started saving data. Living in the clouds may one day not be a dreamers dream but a reality.