Venus was likely habitable for 3B years. Then something mysterious happened.

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Venus was likely habitable for 3B years. Then something mysterious happened.





Yeah we all know what that was.




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Venus was likely habitable for 3B years. Then something mysterious happened.




Although it's possible Mars once supported life, Earth is the only planet in the solar system currently known to do so. However, a new study notes that Venus may have been habitable for a few billion years — until something mysterious happened.


The research, presented at the European Planetary Science Congress – Division for Planetary Sciences Joint Meeting 2019, notes that Venus potentially had stable temperatures and was home to "liquid water" for 2 to 3 billion years, until a "dramatic transformation" started happening more than 700 million years ago that completely reshaped the planet and resurfaced approximately 80 percent of it.

Our hypothesis is that Venus may have had a stable climate for billions of years. It is possible that the near-global resurfacing event is responsible for its transformation from an Earth-like climate to the hellish hot-house we see today,” said Dr. Michael Way, the study's lead author, in a statement.

With or without man made global warming, earth is eventually going to turn into another Venus/Mars. It's just a matter of time.

But this would be good news as far as life on other planets. If there was life once on Venus and Mars then that means eventually ever solar system ends up having life. It may not be human life but it's life. It may be smarter than us but most likely most life out there is not thinking like we think. At best the life is probably as smart as a crocodile or dinosaur or bird or dolphin.

But then again Dolphins might be smarter that [sic] we know.

Smarter than you, for sure.

Smarter than anyone who ever sat in your classroom

Smartest kid who ever took your class and best wrestler you ever coached

 

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Clearly, Republicans want that here.