Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxhh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxhh!/hh1/pst2/bin/user From: /hh1/pst2/bin/user@pyuxhh.UUCP (/hh1/pst2/bin/user) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: net.astro posting Message-ID: <724@pyuxhh.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 10:48:20 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxhh.724 Posted: Fri Sep 28 10:48:20 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 08:44:48 EDT References: <1519@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 19 >One of the most hostile worlds in our solar system is right next door >-- Venus. Venus has 900-degree-Fahrenheit surface temperatures -- and >such tremendous surface pressure that standing on Venus would be like >being underwater on Earth, some half a mile beneath the surface of an >ocean. Venus also has fearsome lightning -- acid rainfall -- and an >unbreathable carbon dioxide atmosphere. >The planet Venus is completely blanketed by thick yellowish clouds -- >so we can't SEE its surface. Makes the toxic waste dumps in Jersey look REAL good ! -- Dave Peak (pyuxhh!dxp) "Thank God I'm an atheist !!!" - Dave Allen