> sometimes wonder what their reaction would be if intelligent beings on Venus one day learned to fly, to sail in the dense air, to penetrate the mysterious cloud veil 45 kilometers above them and eventually to emerge out the top of the clouds, to look up and for the first time witness that glorious universe of Sun and planets and stars."

like when in matrix revolutions they climb up above the clouds and see the sun for the first time :')

Haven't seen that. Any YouTube link of that scene?