Venusian Conditions

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People,

 

The page below is from the book of Daniel Ross entitled UFOs and the

Complete Evidence from Space. He makes some nice points about the

probable living conditions on the surface of the planet, which would

apply to the conditions on the inner surface of a hollow planet, also.

 

The Puranas tell us that the planets are inhabited- don't believe

NASA.

 

Ross-

 

 

By the early 1960's, following years of increasing reports on UFO

activity in our skies, the idea that Venus had a habitable

environment was becoming more and more acceptable in the minds of the

public, and in the theories of notable space scientists. Astronomy

had always referred to Venus as the twin planet of our Earth, since

both planets were nearly equal in size and each had a cloudy

atmosphere. But our sister planet was continually covered with a

thick blanket of clouds, and the surface conditions on Venus remained

a mystery to earth-bound observers. Some scientists reasoned that

although the orbit of Venus was closer to the sun, her perpetual

cloud cover reflected a large portion of the sun's energy, thus

making the surface temperatures very Earth-like.

 

In November 1959, scientists working for the U.S. Navy and John

Hopkins University sent up a stratospheric balloon to an altitude of

16 miles to study Venus. Infra-red readings determined that there was

five times more water vapor above the Venusian clouds than above the

corresponding high clouds over Earth. In 1960, a spectrographic study

by American and Soviet scientists provided further data on the

Venusian atmosphere. By observing Venus during its crescent phase,

they did a spectrum analysis of the night glow, or "ashen light",

which is often very noticeable over the nighttime portion of the

hemisphere. The study revealed the presence of both nitrogen and

atomic oxygen in the planet's atmosphere. The night glow over the

darkened hemisphere was directly attributed to the atomic oxygen. The

Earth has the same characteristic element in the upper level of its

atmosphere. Normal oxygen (02) is disassociated by shortwave solar

radiation into single-atom oxygen.

 

The British space expert V.A. Firsoff remarked that a planetary

atmosphere could not retain such an active element as oxygen over a

period of time, unless it were constantly replenished from some

source such as photosynthesis in green plants. He added that its

presence on Venus in apparent abundance constituted strong evidence

for life there. Firsoff further reasoned that Venus' magnetic field

would tend to keep the bulk of the diatomic oxygen (02) in the

atmosphere below the clouds, and if there were a permanent inversion

of temperatures on Venus, as it seemed likely, carbon dioxide would

naturally diffuse upwards across that inversion line, since carbon

dioxide is known to be an efficient absorber of radiant energy. With

the air being warmer above the clouds than immediately below them,

and because the stratosphere around Venus would characteristically

lack vertical air currents, the carbon dioxide would be trapped in

the upper regions. Firsoff concluded that the air below the clouds of

Venus could be much like our own.

 

Included in the scientific article just referenced, was a descriptive

picture showing apparent snow-caps at the poles, based on telescopic

observations of Venus with the aid of specialized filters. Although

the evidence was tentative, the apparent existence of polar caps was

consistent with the recent confirmation of water vapor in the

Venusian clouds, and with the explanations for a permanent

temperature inversion in the atmosphere. Firsoff summarized his

scientific discussion by stating that Venus might well be an "abode

of life" at least as comfortable as the Earth.

 

In 1960 a similar view was given by Dr. Edward G. Pendray, the

founder of the American Rocket Society. This scientist stated: "Venus

may turn out to be a wonderful place to live. We don't know much

about its surface, because we can't see it. But it is about the same

size as Earth and nearer to the sun. It may be like Florida all over."

 

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