Venus
Goddess of love
star of the morning
born from the ocean
queen of life's dreaming
Steps from the sea
bathed in a rainbow
surrounded by waves
and sea birds that crow
Onto the sand
into the landscape
a vision of beauty
a wondrous fate
But look to the sky
your home planet sizzles
a deadly dry landscape
where it never drizzles
That dominion is stark
rocks glow in a heat
that loves to melt lead
no place for your feet
We know your past
of a planet once cool
with water like Earth
til the Sun dried your pool
Are you doomed to bake
an eternal devil's furnace
or could you find new birth
regain your ocean's palace?
Could we love you
enough to cool you
with a sunshade above
and water to your brew?
Not too hot
and not too frozen
just right for life
where waves freshen
Could we cool you
hot goddess of love
heal that parched planet
deliver new life from above?
Goddess of love
star of the morning
born from the ocean
queen of life's dreaming
Steps from the sea
bathed in a rainbow
surrounded by waves
and sea birds that crow
Onto the sand
into the landscape
a vision of beauty
a wondrous fate
But look to the sky
your home planet sizzles
a deadly dry landscape
where it never drizzles
That dominion is stark
rocks glow in a heat
that loves to melt lead
no place for your feet
We know your past
of a planet once cool
with water like Earth
til the Sun dried your pool
Are you doomed to bake
an eternal devil's furnace
or could you find new birth
regain your ocean's palace?
Could we love you
enough to cool you
with a sunshade above
and water to your brew?
Not too hot
and not too frozen
just right for life
where waves freshen
Could we cool you
hot goddess of love
heal that parched planet
deliver new life from above?
A day of new birth
a Venusian ocean
rise once again
new life in motion
Jaqi
Bluh
Sunday
1
September
2019
NOTE ~ Venus is nearly the same size as Earth. It would take a long time, maybe a million years, but it would be possible to transform Venus into a second Earth, beginning with a sunshade in space, to begin to cool the planet. There is no water on Venus at present, but there is plenty of water in the Solar System, some of which could be brought to Venus. In the early phase, there could be cities that float in the clouds of Venus, where carbon and oxygen may be mined from the air, which is mainly carbon dioxide (CO2). With the power of the Sun for energy, CO2 from Venus could be processed, and the carbon used to make carbon based products for human society in space. Carbon is an amazing element, the basis of life as we know it, and the raw material for a growing range of new products.
Mysterious Cloud 'Absorbers' Seen to Drive Venusian Albedo, Climate http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Mysterious_Cloud_Absorbers_Seen_to_Drive_Venusian_Albedo_Climate_999.html
"Venus is much hotter - in the neighborhood of 860 degrees Fahrenheit (460 degrees Celsius) at the surface - due to a runaway greenhouse effect caused by a thick, carbon dioxide rich atmosphere and a blanket of clouds composed mostly of droplets of sulfuric acid." ~ "The planet rotates in the opposite direction of Earth (the Sun rises in the west), and its surface has never been seen by the human eye as it is completely obscured by its banks of opaque, highly reflective clouds." ~ "In particular, the albedo changes help explain variations in the vigorous activity of the planet's upper atmosphere, which exhibits what scientists call "super-rotation," a phenomenon driven by winds exceeding 200 miles per hour."
Jaqi
Bluh
Sunday
1
September
2019
NOTE ~ Venus is nearly the same size as Earth. It would take a long time, maybe a million years, but it would be possible to transform Venus into a second Earth, beginning with a sunshade in space, to begin to cool the planet. There is no water on Venus at present, but there is plenty of water in the Solar System, some of which could be brought to Venus. In the early phase, there could be cities that float in the clouds of Venus, where carbon and oxygen may be mined from the air, which is mainly carbon dioxide (CO2). With the power of the Sun for energy, CO2 from Venus could be processed, and the carbon used to make carbon based products for human society in space. Carbon is an amazing element, the basis of life as we know it, and the raw material for a growing range of new products.
Mysterious Cloud 'Absorbers' Seen to Drive Venusian Albedo, Climate http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Mysterious_Cloud_Absorbers_Seen_to_Drive_Venusian_Albedo_Climate_999.html
"Venus is much hotter - in the neighborhood of 860 degrees Fahrenheit (460 degrees Celsius) at the surface - due to a runaway greenhouse effect caused by a thick, carbon dioxide rich atmosphere and a blanket of clouds composed mostly of droplets of sulfuric acid." ~ "The planet rotates in the opposite direction of Earth (the Sun rises in the west), and its surface has never been seen by the human eye as it is completely obscured by its banks of opaque, highly reflective clouds." ~ "In particular, the albedo changes help explain variations in the vigorous activity of the planet's upper atmosphere, which exhibits what scientists call "super-rotation," a phenomenon driven by winds exceeding 200 miles per hour."
Venus, Not Earth, May Have Been Our Solar System's Best Chance At Life
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/07/06/venus-not-earth-may-have-been-our-solar-systems-best-chance-at-life/#5aae2cc95385
"Venus' atmosphere was very thin at the beginning, comparable to the thickness of Earth's atmosphere today. Earth, on the other hand, was very different, with lots of methane, ammonia, water vapor, hydrogen and virtually no oxygen at all. And the Sun was so faint compared to what it is now: less than 80% as luminous as it is today. With all that in mind, perhaps -- if we rewound the Solar System to the very beginning and started it again -- the ingredients for life would come together on Venus far more easily than on Earth? And perhaps early Venus was teeming with life, while things on Earth were barely getting started?"
Why 80% less luminous? ~ This is due to the way the Sun burns its fuel supply. Our star has so much fuel in reserve, it will burn fiercely over the next 5 billion years, until expanding to the orbit of the Earth as a red giant. This is basic astronomy for a star like our Sun, which also makes it one hell of an energy well.
A good day on Venus ~ 460C ~ 860F ~ Wind 200 kph
'The Birth of Venus' by Sandro Botticelli, 1486
