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Venus has been visible to the earliest generations and has always been a topic of conversations and speculation.

With the advent of the telescope it was apparent that the surface of Venus was never visible, it was always covered in clouds. Year in year out.

Early astronomers thought that clouds meant clouds as on Earth, and thus it must have lots of water. If it had lots of water vapour, it must be hot. So what - as their thoughts went - is an area that is hot and has lots of water. A swamp.

So Venus was believed to be a hot and a moist planet. How wrong they were. If there was a hell, Venus would be it.

However, there is a good possibility that Venus DID have water about a billion or two years ago, but something happened to the carbon cycle that caused the runaway greenhouse effect.

It is now a probable coincidence that the Earth will follow Venus within a billion year or sooner if we are not careful.

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