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NASA astrobiologist David Grinspoon introduces us to the alien seas that may once have washed across the shores of ancient Venus. Orbiting spacecraft have detected high amounts of chemicals pointing to vast amounts of water in the Venusian past. Earth’s sister world may have harbored a host of lakes and seas.
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Or maybe several big hits that, when the plasma and dust cleared, cancelled out and left her spinning retrograde and slow.
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Was it? Give me 5 billion dollars and 10 years, then ask me again…
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For now.
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No not a typo for a Chinese brunch treat.
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Hey this is my dream. If you don’t like it, start your own.
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Without, of course, keeping our minds so open that our brains fall out.
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Grinspoon, D. (2013). Chasing the Lost Oceans of Venus. In: Carroll, M., Lopes, R. (eds) Alien Seas. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7473-9_2
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