Venus, long dismissed as Earth's ruined twin, conceals a narrow band of relative hospitality fifty kilometers above its lethal surface — a zone where pressure and temperature approximate the familiar conditions of home. The Soviet Venera probes measured the cost of ignoring this distinction in minutes of survival, while NASA's HAVOC concept asks whether the sky itself might be the destination. In the long human effort to understand neighboring worlds, Venus now poses a quieter question: what does it mean to visit a place you can never touch?