Hello Alexander,   
      
    LL>> The Transit of Venus has come and gone.   
    LL>> Doomsday has thus been averted.   
    LL>> Until next time, 130 years from now.   
    LL>> May you live long, and prosper.   
      
    ak> BTW, do you know the atmosphere of which planet in the Solar system has   
    ak> oxygen tens time more than on Earth? It is Venus. It's true, however, that   
    ak> this oxygen combined with carbon-- but it doesn't matter. All the oxygen   
   on   
    ak> the planets like Earth is produced by life forms. There is no other way.   
    ak> All CO2 is produced when carbon is burned in oxygen.   
      
   Dang!  And all this time I thought that Lilliput was an island...   
      
    ak> So what do we have on Venus? For producing such an amount of oxygen it had   
    ak> to have prosperous life and fauna. And these two things had produced a lot   
    ak> of organic materials (carbon materials I mean) and oxygen.   
      
   Velikovsky said that Venus once struck the Earth, as if God were   
   playing a game of billiards...   
      
    ak> The remaining conclusion is simple. If somebody wants to produce such a   
    ak> great amount of CO2 on Venus, he burns all the life forms and its remains   
    ak> in hellish fire. And after that, we have C02 atmosphere like the one that   
    ak> Venus has now.   
      
   Hellfire and brimstone.  Now where have I heard that phrase before?   
      
    ak> It happened, BTW, not long ago, because the planets of Venus size cannot   
    ak> keep such huge atmospheres for a long time.   
      
   Velikovsky also claimed that Mars and Mercury and all the other   
   planets went careening about the solar system, smacking into each   
   other at various times...   
      
    ak> What does it mean for Earth? It means that it is illusion to think that   
   life   
    ak> on the Earth like planets has some value. And the Earth is probably a nice   
    ak> candidate to repeat the path of the Venus, because there is no a single   
    ak> reason to prevent these sort of things. Even if there is somebody capable   
    ak> to do such a thing. A worthless, bloody planet.   
      
   Not to worry.  Jupiter will smash us to smithereens long before   
   Earth gets burnt up by the Sun.   
      
   --Lee   
      
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