4501 A Lesson from Venus

4501 A Lesson from Venus

And a message.  Here’s the message: Screw with the environment and it will screw you back.  According to new reports, Venus, described as “hellishly hot,” may once have been able to support life as we know it.  

The authoritative website space.com reports this finding based on information gathered by NASA explorations.  There once “may have been” water.  There “once may have been” air.  And since all this supposedly lasted for several billion years, it’s possible life was formed.

No one knows what happened, but today Venus’ daytime temperature is pretty steady at almost 900 degrees F.  That’s hot enough to incinerate that layer cake in your oven in about two seconds.  Pretty easy to work up a sweat.  If you live long enough. Say five minutes.

Today, human beings would expire faster than fruit flies on earth.  Venus is the second rock from the sun and the brightest thing in the heavens you can see with the naked eye.  

So change happens over time.  Over LONG time. So what are we worried about here on earth, after all, the icecaps may be melting, the ocean rising and the sun getting hotter.  But … well… it takes a long time to change. 

But what if “now” is late in our remaining time.  What if we’re in the spot Venus was in a few billion years ago when it turned into the Rock of Hell?

This space has long advocated prospective rich people to buy land in and around Cincinnati where we expect the Atlantic coast to be located sooner or later.  That’s half-joking. But only half.

Note to readers: we’ll have plenty to say about impeachment on Friday, 9/27.  Meantime, thanks for waking up, Ms. Pelosi.  And let the real republicans jump ship. The rest of America welcomes you home from that cruise to oblivion.

I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®

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