On Sep 9, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:49:11
-0800:
Hi,
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On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
If the oceans were to boil off, where would all the water to go?
Same place it went on venus, into building a higher altitude more
dense atmosphere.
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I doubt there was ever much water on Venus. See
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/V/Venusatmos.html
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"It is currently thought that the atmosphere of Venus up to around 4
billion years ago was more like that of the Earth with liquid water
on the surface. The runaway greenhouse effect may have been caused by
the evaporation of the surface water and subsequent rise of the
levels of other greenhouse gases.[7]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus
http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/1988Icar...74..472K
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
