[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

Why did Venus fall prey to runaway global warming?

Oh, I don't know.

Maybe because it is ~30,000,000 miles closer to the sun?

[Salamander]

Bush did it!®

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I didn't know there were Republicans on Venus!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Wow, talk about great minds thinking alike! That was going to be my answer!

[Mr. Mojo]

"Its main goal is to help understand why Venus fell prey to runaway global warming."

For the same reason Pluto "fell prey" to planetary cooling ;)

[Kokojmudd]

American Capitalist Imperialism extended all the way to Venus. Facinating!

[Gil4]

Too many SUV's!

[kx9088]

Woah, humans lived on Venus?

[LIConFem]

That's impossible. There are no SUV's, fossil fuel-burning power plants or flatulent cattle on Venus.

[chilepepper]

actually, only stupid people fall prey to global warming...

[bmwcyle]

They might find the bones of evil white men with flannel shirts.

[Junior]

Global Warning? Who issued it? The Federation?

[HEY4QDEMS]

Gee Doc, you should know better than to suggest a rational explanation to irrational people.

[Semper Paratus]

Blaming all that heat on the sun is taking the easy way out!

[Sax]

Yeah and the Sun is Global Warmest. What the hell did the Capitalists do there?!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Soyuz-Fregat rocket

Evidently a case of "Fire and Fregat"...

[nuconvert]

"why Venus fell prey to runaway global warming. "

Must have been all the darn cars and factories

[Lazamataz]

I love when an article answers its own questions:

Question: ... why Venus fell prey to runaway global warming(?)

Answer: Venus is the second planet from the Sun.

[OB1kNOb]

The ESA apparently has their heads stuck in Uranus.

[reagan_fanatic]

It's obvious that big business and the Republicans have been using Venus as a laboratory to test the effects of global warming on a planet before introducing it to Earth.

Sneaky little devils.

[Centurion2000]

Considering a 30% albedo, 70% liquid oceans and almost the exact size of earth. What would the temperature be ona hypothetical second planet from the sun? Is Venus even in the habitable zone for Sol?

[Constantine XIII]

The interesting thing, though, is that it's surface temperature is quite a bit higher than Mercury's.

[Thinkin' Gal]

The so-called Morning Star has clouds of suffocating gas driven by hurricane-force winds, as well as a surface pressure and temperature high enough to crush and melt steel.

Goddess of love.

[MortMan]

Hot flashes?

[L98Fiero]

"Its main goal is to help understand why Venus fell prey to runaway global warming."

Wow, that global warming monster lies in wait, preying on innocent planets.

Maybe next they can help understand why stuff falls down instead of sideways.

[Enchante]

What's a mere 30,000,000 miles between friends??

p.s. Just because Venus has been scorched by the sun for millions of years doesn't mean it's not all BUSH'S FAULT!!

[Politicalmom]

It was all those Venusians and their nasty fossil-fuel-burning flying SUVs.

[HamiltonJay]

Maybe because it is ~30,000,000 miles closer to the sun?

Ding Ding Ding Ding!! We have a winner. Venus is not within the range of what scientist believe life could be maintainable and possible.. Earth and Mars are the only 2 that they believe might... with an outside chance on Europa in the waters, if they are warmed beneath by geothermal activity.

[ChadGore]

Proving once again that global warming is caused by the Sun.

[metmom]

Noooo, why would that have anything to do with it?

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Halliburtondidit.

[GeraldP]

Venus fell prey to an energy-farming alien civilization.




Seriously though... I seem to recall that Venus is right at the edge of Sol's habitable zone, drifting in and out of it during its elliptical orbit.

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe because it is ~30,000,000 miles closer to the sun?

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[Swordmaker]

Venus RADIATES more heat than it receives... ergo it is not hot due to energy received fron the sun... ergo, it is not hot due to "global warming" gone wild. There has to be another reason.

Before we sent below-cloud-top probes to Venus only ONE person predicted the temperature AND the composition of the atmosphere AND the atmospheric pressure of Venus... Immanuel Velikovsky.