Comparing Venus In All Summer In A Day

Comparing Venus

In science fiction, authors use reality to make it seem like the story could happen. But, at times, they are not always exactly like reality. This essay will compare our Venus in real life to the Venus in “All Summer in a Day” We will start off with the differences.

There are great deals of differences between the real Venus and the Venus in the story. First is the temperature and climate on Venus. Real Venus temperature is over 860 F and has clouds made up of sulfur. NASA’s own states this after examining Venus’s conditions: “The climate on Venus is widely known to be unpleasant -- at the surface, the planet roasts at more than 800 degrees Fahrenheit under a suffocating blanket of sulfuric acid clouds and a crushing atmosphere

The real Venus is boiling and the pressure on the planet itself can crush us. Even though Venus is almost the same size as earth it’s not habitable as of now. Shelly Canright also states in her article, “The surface of Venus is not where you'd like to be, with temperatures that can melt lead, an atmosphere so thick it would crush you and clouds of sulfuric acid that smell like rotten eggs to top it off!” (Canright). And “The atmosphere of Venus is very hot and thick. You would not survive a visit to the surface of the planet - you couldn't breathe the air, you would be crushed by the enormous weight of the atmosphere, and you would burn up in surface temperatures high enough to melt lead.” (Canright) However, the Venus in the story, there are colonies on Venus and the atmosphere is like earth. The clouds like Earth’s collect rain, not sulfur, making it safe for them to live on the planet. In the story it notes, “And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives.” (Bradbury) Maybe someday we will find a way to live on Venus but for now, these are