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Genre: Science & Technology
Date of upload: Nov 11, 2023 ^^
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Those yellow photos of Venus have stayed in my head ever since, so mysterious and haunting to think that we actually landed a craft there. Wow! Just a little update, when I said 'we' I meant the human race. I don't care which country landed it there, it's still a miracle and gives me goosebumps to see it.
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This paints a nightmarish picture of a world whose plate tectonics ground to a halt prematurely. Maybe life continued as normal for a while, but then half a billion or so years later the magma pressure built up to such an intensity under the entire fused surface that it burst through the lid in a single catastrophic release. It's like that firework display where everything went off at once instead of in sequence. All the volcanic activity that would have happened slowly on Earth over billions of years all happened at the same time, leaving a charred, dead, blown-out world with nary a shred of evidence that it had ever been otherwise.
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I had the pleasure of visiting Parkes observatory in New South Wales, Australia. There was an astronomy enthusiast event at the time of our visit. It was a sunny, clear day and one of the enthusiasts pointed out Venus, shining bright in broad daylight. I ended up observing it through a telescope and was stricken by the sight of this amazing planet.
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Quoting Boromir to explain the severity of Venus.
Itās because of things like this you are amongst my favourite YouTubers. And my absolute favourite person on the platform. Skill, knowledge, in-depth research.
passion, emotion and a true love for what you do. Youāre a diamond amongst the rough ā¤
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I've often pondered what it would be like if Venus, Earth and Mars had all developed life and were each still thriving. Unfortunately, if there were lifeforms that developed anything like we did and were equally as intelligent and advanced as we are, we'd surely be at war with at least one of the two planets because that's just what we do. And yes, I'm fully aware of how unrealistic that is but, technically, it's not entirely impossible.
Of course, when I get to thinking about that kind of stuff, I like to wonder what it would be like if Venus, for example, was still in the condition to support life and had also developed dinosaurs (but not humans) somehow and hadn't experienced an extinction level event, therefore leaving these hypothetical "dinosaurs" to continue to exist there to this day. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty unrealistic as well for so many reasons, but again, not entirely impossible.
I honestly find these types of things pretty interesting to think about, personally, and even somewhat fun to imagine literally countless scenarios, realistic or not.
Somewhere out there, though, there may very well be a solar system with multiple planets that each developed life in very different ways and the thought of actually seeing that is exciting, even though I'm fully aware that it's not something that I will actually ever get to experience.
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The more we study planets like Venus and exoplanets the more it becomes evident how unique the Earth truly is. The Earth too has gone through periods of extreme volcanic activity and yet natural processes on Earth has rebalanced itself to create a happy medium where life continues to flourish. Mars and Venus are also constant reminders of the Earth's fragility and the precariousness of our own existence. As always a beautiful and thought provoking video!
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@jpaulc441
6 months ago
If Venus and Mars tried harder at school we could have had 3 Earthlike planets. Imagine how much of an incentive space exploration would have if Venus or Mars had a rich biosphere with millions of alien plant and animal species to study, maybe even intelligent life? I once had a dream Venus was full of Koffing pokemon.
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