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After reading a paper by Geoffrey A. Landis on the concept (located here as a pdf) on the Colonization of Venus I've decided that this is what we should be putting most of our efforts towards instead of Mars. You can't beat one bar of pressure and a temperature of only about 50C that you get in the cloudtops of the planet. Think Cloud City in Star Wars. I think it's time that this be made a featured article so I'll be working on that page quite a bit in the near future. Feel free to help out if you can.
Note from Sept. 4 2006: Atmosphere of Venus is an article I created that was put on the did you know section for half a day in August. Since there's waaay more content for the atmosphere of the planet than for theoretical colonization, I've decided that this is the better article to try to make into a FA. Over the past few weeks I also translated it into Korean and Japanese and it was featured on their did you know...section too. Personally I'd rather see the colonization of Venus article on the front page, but I don't think that's possible for the time being.
[edit] Galbijim wiki
A project started by some people I know here in Korea that I am contributing to on the wiki side - it's a wiki for everything an expat in South Korea would need to know. The content overlaps what you'll find here from time to time (such as city articles and whatnot) but in the same manner as Memory Alpha and Wookieepedia the Galbijim Wiki is much more specific in the subject it is devoted to. In May 2007, our site published a book.
[edit] Supporting the Ido language movement
What if you want to support the Ido language movement but aren't sure what to do, and don't know the language that well? Here are some easy ways:
- The easiest way is to add words to Wiktionary, either in the Ido Wiktionary (now at 115,000 words), or by adding Ido words to the translation section in your Wiktionary.
- If you see an article of ours with a large number of interwiki links, chances are we've only added the interwiki links to the English and perhaps French and German Wikipedias. Feel free to add Ido interwiki links to the other languages.
- Put this template on your user page: {{User_io-0}}
Here's an example of what Ido sounds like sung. This is not me. I play the drums. I don't sing. Yet.
Listen
- Me vidis ofte en sonj' des'quieta
- Ke trans rivero distant'
- Super la tekti, sub la nubeti
- La griza kavalo esis lente flugant'.
- En la cielo, super la tekti
- La griza kavalo esis lente flugant'.
- On audas nul' soni dum lua kurado,
- Ritmoze fluktuadas pektor'.
- Levint' maxim alte lu des'aparadas.
- Me esis vekant' e ne povis dormor.
- Me rimemoras ke sempre plu alte
- La kaval' es levinta... Me ne povas dormor.
- "Quon signifikas la sonjo, tu dicez",
- Me pregis la ciganin'.
- "Nu, mea kara, tu esos felica,
- Tun prizas fortuno", respondis l'oldin'.
- "Yes-yes, mea ora, tu esos felica,
- Por la fortuno tu es preferind'".
- Ma regretinde me ja ne vidas
- La griza kaval' en ciel':
- Sive pavoras feliceso timida
- siv' men des'prizeskis la fortuno rebel'.
- La feliceson flugant' me timigas,
- Me des'prizesis dal fortuno rebel'.
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