Venusian Climate May Have Been Habitable

tqft writes "Venus - life signs maybe - 'The hellish climate of Venus may have arisen far more recently than previously supposed, suggests new research. If so, pleasant Earth-like conditions probably persisted for two billion years after the planet's birth - plenty of time for life to have developed.' Mars is for wimps afraid of a real hot acid drenched challenge."

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the greenhouse effect

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The hellish climate of Venus may have arisen far more recently than previously supposed

It was fine until an oil magnate became their President.

From the article

[passthecrackpipe]

From the article:

Venus is virtually the same size as Earth and, on average, is our nearest neighbour. Today, its atmospheric temperatures are hot enough to melt lead and concentrated sulfuric acid continuously drizzles down from thick sulphurous clouds that completely block out the Sun.

Sounds like human life originated on Venus, we totally fucked it up, and sent a "try again" genetic seeding material package to Earth. Seems we didn't learn much.....

Re:We already knew there was life on Venus

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After all, isn't that where women originated from?

But, then, the men arrived with beer, brauts, and football. The atmosphere turned in a matter of weeks.