Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!nsc!nessus From: nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: net.astro posting Message-ID: <1519@nsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 18:50:54 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1519 Posted: Thu Sep 27 18:50:54 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 07:10:01 EDT Distribution: net Organization: The Patriarchy of Kzin Lines: 26 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** >Newsgroups: net.astro >Subject: StarDate: September 26 Venus and the Moon >Date: 26 Sep 84 06:00:29 GMT >Organization: UTexas Astronomy Dept., Austin, Texas >Lines: 38 >September 26 Venus and the Moon >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. Seems to me they could be talking about Los Angeles as well, except for the temperatures.(and lately San Jose) I wish I could add :-), but I cannot. Kchula-Rrit