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Planet Venus 'Fell prey to Global Warning'!!!
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| October 18, 2005
| AP
Posted on 10/18/2005 10:29:27 AM PDT by Dr._Joseph_Warren
Venus Express set for liftoff
Venus Express, the European Space Agency's first mission to explore Earth's closest neighbour, will be launched next Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The ESA gave the prospective launch time as 0443 GMT.
The 1.27-tonne unmanned spacecraft, which will be taken aloft by a Russian-made Soyuz-Fregat rocket, is expected to arrive at Venus on April 6.
Venus Express, equipped with seven instruments, is intended to map the Venusian surface and weather system, looking at temperature variation, cloud formations, wind speeds and gas composition.
Its main goal is to help understand why Venus fell prey to runaway global warming.
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is similar in size, mass and age to Earth, but the two planets are otherwise quite different.
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.
Venus Express is a sister to Mars Express, an orbiter that is now circling the Red Planet.
Further information is available on (www.esa.int).
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; globalwarning; kyoto; suvs; velikovsky; venus; venusexpress
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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?
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:31:07 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Cursed with Second Sight)
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
I didn't know there were Republicans on Venus!
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:32:12 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
Wow, talk about great minds thinking alike! That was going to be my answer!
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:32:27 AM PDT
by
2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
(Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
"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 ;)
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:32:50 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
American Capitalist Imperialism extended all the way to Venus. Facinating!
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:33:07 AM PDT
by
Kokojmudd
(Trade the US Senate for the Iraqi Parliament!)
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:33:40 AM PDT
by
Gil4
('When does mama get to hang somebody?!'")
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
Woah, humans lived on Venus?
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:33:40 AM PDT
by
kx9088
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
That's impossible. There are no SUV's, fossil fuel-burning power plants or flatulent cattle on Venus.
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:33:41 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
actually, only stupid people fall prey to global warming...
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:33:54 AM PDT
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
They might find the bones of evil white men with flannel shirts.
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:33:54 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(We broke Pink's Code and found a terrorist message)
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To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
Global Warning? Who issued it? The Federation?
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:33:59 AM PDT
by
Junior
(From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
Gee Doc, you should know better than to suggest a rational explanation to irrational people.
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:35:25 AM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Ham & Eggs: A day's work for a hen, A lifetime commitment for a pig.)
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
Blaming all that heat on the sun is taking the easy way out!
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
Yeah and the Sun is Global Warmest. What the hell did the Capitalists do there?!
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:36:10 AM PDT
by
Sax
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
Soyuz-Fregat rocket Evidently a case of "Fire and Fregat"...
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:37:02 AM PDT
by
2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
(Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
"why Venus fell prey to runaway global warming. "
Must have been all the darn cars and factories
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:37:10 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
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.
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:37:38 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
To: Salamander
Bush did it!® Halliburton gets no-bid contract to decrease sun's output by 40% to rectify problem...
Film at 11.
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posted on
10/18/2005 10:39:25 AM PDT
by
George Smiley
(This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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