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Am aware, but it seems to have come from a place that was more similar to earth than Mars' https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/venus-could-have-been-habi
by Aachen 2y ago
Am aware, but it seems to have come from a place that was more similar to earth than Mars'
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/venus-could-have-been-habitable-billions-years-180973203/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/venus-could-have-b... and other articles make that case. I don't know if that's still current information (heard it a while ago and just looked up a random article as reference now, so this might be akin to cherry picking or confirmation bias), I'm not an expert on this particular topic, but that claim is what I had in mind when saying Venus' conditions are more attainable for earth
Blurb from that article
> Venus was downright Earth-like for 2 to 3 billion years and didn't turn into the violent no-man's land we know today until 700 million years ago.
- withinboredom 2y agoI used to joke that life actually started on Venus and we were the backup planet.