Life, Venus and Beyond Mars – Wednesday 8th November 2023

Life, Venus and Beyond Mars – Wednesday 8th November 2023

We know Mars had an ocean. For Venus, my thought is that it hasn’t yet had an ocean. Which implies to me that Venus is younger than Earth, or, if it isn’t then it’s position closer to the Sun keeps the planet in a type of suspension until it’s in the right position for that process of ocean forming to commence. There isn’t any point in doing so before then, when the goal is to produce surface life, in my view, so perhaps that could be the situation.

Once a planet has been through the ocean phase, I feel it only gets a single opportunity in this ocean forming time, which is why Mars cannot produce another. If Mars had glaciers and it may well have I think, they melted suddenly, which may have been due to the moon issue there. And poor Mars was nipped in the bud. I have wondered did Mars ever get the chance to grow anything at all, if it did, I suspect it didn’t get far along when things suddenly went awry there.

I have suggested that life has occurred prior to Earth in this solar system and I still think that. In fact, I think in the future we may be able to confirm it. But, they are past, they won’t be suitable for life now. And when life ends and oceans remain without all the necessary movement and weather, then chemicals reflecting stagnation will be present and atmospheres will change from being like Earth’s to something foreign. Gases will be Willy Nilly depending on what has taken place and what level of life was attained. But in the depths of those planets (which are possibly now like moons orbiting the outer planets) will be those micro aspects that were present when the planet was young. Ultimately they are not lost, because the ‘universe’ is designed to re-use material and so those building blocks will one day re-emerge in another planet in another time and star system.

Fiona MacLeod (C)