04-23-2015, 09:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-24-2015, 01:31 AM by stevebowers.)
I'd like to write up a Venus-like planet with a continuous habitable ring suspended in the atmosphere above the equator; this ring could be extended over time until it covers most, or all of the planet. Paul Birch suggested that a habitable surface of this kind would shade and cool the lower atmosphere and would eventually settle down onto the planet's surface.