Making Venus habitable: Start by siphoning off the atmosphere. Use self-replicating nano swarms that break apart the unwanted bits off of the molecular chains and carry them out of the atmosphere towards the sun. Mind you, this would require some severely efficient energy storage - perhaps something akin to a complicated electron maze... although at this point, we should be FAR BEYOND electrons and being able to harness the energies inbetween the "electron shells" and THEN harvesting the released ions as well. Total science fiction, but then again, so is most of theoretical physics :P*** -Kenneth Udut