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New Results From Venus Express
Riding with Robots writes "For the past two years, Europe's Venus Express orbiter has been studying Earth's planetary neighbor up close. Today, mission scientists have released a new collection of findings and amazing images. They include evidence of lightning and other results that flesh out a portrait of a planet that is in many ways like ours, and in other ways hellishly different, such as surface temperatures over 400C and air pressure a hundred times that on Earth. The article lists seven papers that will be published today in Nature."
If it takes more than 5 billion years to stop the spin, we'll have more issues with the sun going red giant on us than worrying about spin.
I'm not worried.
The theory I saw for that is that it needs a sizable moon.
The tidal forces would get it's liquid core pumping, and help strip the atmosphere.
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
So I have a box full of pingpong balls and .50 calibre lead shot. I remove most or all the pingpong balls. Now the density of the mixture has increased even though I have not "replenished" anything.
In the case of Venus, you can substitute lighter gasses (Hydrogen, Nitrogen, etc) with heavier gasses (carbon and sulfur compounds).
=Smidge=
That probe sure took some stunning artist rendition images!
Of course, you mean this as an amusing and ironic comment on the fact that a case of abundantly-obvious global warming would be denied by a fictionalized idiot president, of course drawing a parallel to our own president.
I'd instead say it's more useful to point to the ACTUAL lack of any humans, SUVs, or even Republicans on Venus... nevertheless *somehow* the planet's climate was overwhelmed by global warming.
Hm, that might almost lead one to think humans have nothing to do with the process at all.
-Styopa