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- Sep 26, 2018
I was randomly searching shit on the Internet and I got onto the topic of astronomy. Both Venus and Mars could have at one point been habitable and Venus in particular seems so similar to Earth that it's such a shame that it became the hellscape it is today.
Just imagine how cool it would've been to have a planetary neighbor not just be habitable but have a whole thriving ecosystem. You don't even need to change Human history all that much until the 60s. The space race and cold war would've been especially interesting as both the west and east try to colonize Venusian jungles. Even being an airless rock would be better than the boiling hell it is now.
It seems like the Universe conspires to make everything harder, you've got a neighbor that's got 91% Earth's gravity but it's a wasteland hot enough to melt lead because fuck you.
Just imagine how cool it would've been to have a planetary neighbor not just be habitable but have a whole thriving ecosystem. You don't even need to change Human history all that much until the 60s. The space race and cold war would've been especially interesting as both the west and east try to colonize Venusian jungles. Even being an airless rock would be better than the boiling hell it is now.
It seems like the Universe conspires to make everything harder, you've got a neighbor that's got 91% Earth's gravity but it's a wasteland hot enough to melt lead because fuck you.