This Ain’t Venus

Venus possesses the thickest atmosphere in our solar system. Scientists have theorized the the second planet from the Sun might have once had oceans until those bodies of water were vaporized by greenhouse conditions millions of years ago. Those gases were blown away by solar winds, leaving a superheated highly pressurized atmosphere of mostly CO2 and some noble gases ie noble gases ie helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), and the radioactive radon (Rn). While impossible for humans to breathe NASA scientists have conjectured that there are still pockets of O2 swirling around Venus. The 1958 film THE QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE portrayed Venus as a planet populated by blonde voluptuous females dominating male scientists ruled by a cruel queen Zsa Zsa Gabor. Her warriors are extremely happy with male Earthlings. Real men. Hollywood never bothered to play by the rules of science. There is no life on Venus at least not as we know it. Last week smoke from countless forest fires in Quebec smothered the Eastern Seaboard. The air quality hot 410 in Central Park. The scale only goes up to 500. That level is considered hazardous. beyond that it's life-threatening, which occurs regularly in New Delhi, India. I shut my windows and hunkered down until the hazardous smog disipated into the atmosphere. Not forever and meteorologists warned that such events were likely to increase in the summers to come. I had once been in Paris and the air qualtiy had deteriorated to the point where the city grovernment banned traffic in the City of Light. The Boulevard St. Germain was devoid of cars. I sat at the Cafe le Floe luxuriating in the urban silence. No one in New York contemplated such a strict measure. Cars are our sacred cows and they existed forever in common memory. I do not have a car. I try to minimize my impact on the planet, but I still use more energy in one day than Julius Caesar had consumed in his brief reign over Rome. We are not to blame for the burning forests, the rising seas, the extinction of our species. It's an anormaly. Just like humans. One Texan evangelist preacher claimed that global warmming was caused by the Earth passing through a warmer section of the Space left over from God's Creation, while an Alabaman Bible-thumper blamed the hotter weather on our ignoring the Word Of God. More sinners are going to Hell and the flames have incrased even more so since they are outweight. Hell has a place for them all. They worship extinction. Even their own.