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To: NicknamedBob

Changing another entity to conform to my preconceived norms is a concept foreign to my value system. You know, “I’m O.K., you’re O.K.”? We’re all O.K.!


324 posted on 07/15/2016 2:01:08 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: Silentgypsy
"Changing another entity to conform to my preconceived norms is a concept foreign to my value system."

Not my problem, but let's see if I can sympathize.

One of my favorite science fiction authors, Robert Heinlein, wrote an adventure story where much of the action occurred on Venus -- on the surface of Venus!

He described it as a jungle planet, with indigenous lifeforms, and lots of plants in a steamy, overcast, perpetually twilit world.

Venus.

Well ... we know now, based on radar mapping and other means, that Venus is the example of what can go wrong with too much atmosphere; we call it "global warming".

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, hotter even than Mercury, which is even closer to the Sun.

But Venus has a very thick atmosphere, ninety times the density of Earth's atmosphere. And it's almost all carbon dioxide.

Earth got water, lots of water. Whether your belief system postulates that the water arrived later or earlier, you still have to admit that Earth has a lot of water.

Venus has always been compared to Earth; Earth's sister planet, they have said. Its diameter and gravity are very similar to Earth.

So, back to Robert Heinlein and "Podkayne of Mars". Yeah, I know, but the story is about her traveling from Mars to Venus.

He could have guessed differently. He could have waited for the science to catch up with his postulates. But where's the fun in that?

329 posted on 07/15/2016 3:59:02 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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