Venus' Stop/Start History Highlighted By Probe

An anonymous reader writes "Science Daily reports on scientific findings from the ESA's Venus Express probe. The device, which is even now orbiting Earth's sister planet, is feeding back data hinting at Venus' origins. Initially, the probe has found, the planet evolved far too quickly. As a result Venus' liquid oceans were boiled away. With those gone, the planet's development stalled and ceased. 'They may have started out looking very much the same,' said Professor Taylor, 'but increasingly we have evidence that Venus lost most of its water and Earth lost most of its atmospheric carbon dioxide ... The interesting thing is that the physics is the same in both cases. The great achievement of Venus Express is that it is putting the climatic behaviour of both planets into a common framework of understanding.'"

Re:the tired old unfunny joke

[Anonymous Coward]

Scientists renamed Uranus years ago to rid the earth of that stupid joke once and for all. Now it's called Urectum! Probes also work with Urectum.

Re:Yeah, right.

[Hal_Porter]

Do you work for Big Oil by any chance? Look it's - simple CO2 causes global warming. Clearly the Venusians had a Republican government that allowed people to use air conditioners, private jets and cars and that caused the planet to die. This peer reviewed science shows everyone must be forced to either return to an Amist lifestyle or buy carbon credits and that will solve the problem.

Women are from venus

[sleeponthemic]

Venus overspent its budget? Would explain one or two things.

Global Warming is dead, now it is Global Boiling?

[G3ckoG33k]

Does this mean Global Warming discussions will be replaced by Global Boiling? Even greater headlines!

Re:global warming comparison in 3,2,1....

[Anonymous Coward]

What does diatomic Cobalt have to do with anything?

Re:Global Warming is dead, now it is Global Boilin

[fr4nk]

Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me!

Too Quickly for Whom?

[Doc Ruby]

the planet evolved far too quickly

Well, from a Venusian's perspective, the Earth evolved far too much. Leaving all those tepid sticky areas out beyond the Sun's cleansing rays has left the Earth to rot, infested with all kinds of vermin. Some of which just dirty the place up even more, and then get nosy, ogling the neighbors and insulting their tidy nearby neighborhoods.

That review of Venus was clearly written by an Earthling real estate agent.

Re:Yeah, right.

[IntelligenceLite]

Extrapolation from one to the other -- even today -- could be dangerous to one's career. Quite the opposite. Coming up with ridiculous, unprovable claims about the weather is a resume enhancer nowadays. And if you can come up with inventive ways to cripple or destroy world economies as a result of those fantasy crises, well hell!, they'll give you a Nobel Peace Prize!