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To: GraceG

Venus is so hot because Venusians driving around in SUVs....

Has nothing to do with the fact that Venus lacks plate tectonics...


Or just plain a much thicker atmosphere in general. At the same pressure height, the Venusian atmosphere is roughly the same temperature as Earths’.


50 posted on 03/18/2014 8:28:52 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

Or just plain a much thicker atmosphere in general. At the same pressure height, the Venusian atmosphere is roughly the same temperature as Earths’.

A “greenhouse effect” works so much better when the atmosphere is 100X as dense....


107 posted on 03/18/2014 11:19:57 AM PDT by GraceG
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