[Space] Terraformed Venus as a setting

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

But being much colder than earth's poles would limit their usefulness quite a bit.

Earth's actual poles aren't particularly useful even in the local summer. Depending on where and how the sunlight peeks over the sunshade Venus' poles might be warmer than Earth's (on average) as well.

With the sunlight needing to go through the atmosphere "edgewise" the atmosphere could give more shielding v. UV than it did at the equator..