atmospheres

Oxygenating atmospheres is easy (and obviously dangerous if you get high partial pressures), the issue is generally scrubbing CO2 out.

According to the Great and Mighty Internet, 20 cmH20 is 0.02 atmospheres, just to give some perspective.

It would allow us to characterize the atmospheres of these planets, possibly drawing conclusions about the presence of life.

Last summer LightSail announced they had completed a full-pressure test of their containment structure at 200 atmospheres.

Funny it took us years to come to this conclusion but heat radiation does not due well with thick atmospheres.

And spectroscopy to observe the composition of atmospheres of planets orbiting the nearest stars will probably happen in not-too-distant future.

At the base of a 1000m shaft you'd have approximately 100 atmospheres of pressure.

For comparison, Venus and Mars have magnetospheres that are smaller than their atmospheres, allowing the solar wind to blow away lighter molecules, such as water.

Then you get to rebalance both the planets atmospheres at once.

Breathable atmospheres, on the other hand, are pretty rare.

> how people like that would be able to cope with actual professional atmospheres after college.

I don't know enough about tides and atmospheres to say whether or not this sort of arrangement would be more conducive towards generating life.

I've always rolled my eyes at complaints about the "trophy generation" (Adam Carolla had a particularly brain-deadening rant about it), but this article honestly did get me wondering about how people like that would be able to cope with actual professional atmospheres after college.