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To: Spirochete

That's the planetary average, right? Assuming a global temperature range similar to that found on Earth, that could put us at 75 degrees at the poles, and 175 at the equator. With air conditioning, everything 125 and below would be habitable, giving us a planet that would support human life over most of its surface.

Venus will never be habitable for many various reasons, but location isn't one of them.


63 posted on 10/18/2005 12:39:41 PM PDT by Arthalion
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To: Arthalion
With air conditioning, everything 125 and below would be habitable, giving us a planet that would support human life over most of its surface.

All this assumes your Venus has the CO2 level we now have on Earth. If your hypothetical Venus has lower CO2 levels, it will be much cooler.

If it has minimal levels necessary for photosynthesis (about 10 ppm), the global average temperature will be around 300 Kelvin / 81 Fahrenheit.

65 posted on 10/18/2005 1:23:50 PM PDT by Spirochete
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To: Arthalion
You are totally right its not the distance to the Sun, but other factors that makes Venus uninhabitable. Right now our only hopes of finding life is on Mars and Europa.
72 posted on 10/18/2005 3:12:06 PM PDT by tomjohn77
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To: Arthalion

Plant kudzu!


90 posted on 10/22/2005 12:16:01 AM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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