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🗓️ 21 June 2024
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Today, you’ll learn about the life-crushing conditions on Venus that could actually tell us about life elsewhere in the universe, how indigenous cultural fire burning could help us create healthier forests, and the people who brew beer in their stomachs.
Venus Environment
Forest Stewardship
Auto-Brewery Syndrome
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0:00.0 | I hope you feel like getting smarter in just a few minutes because that is what we do here at Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
0:10.0 | My name is Nate. |
0:11.0 | Hey guys, we are so excited to have you here with us today at Curiosity. |
0:14.4 | My name is Callie. |
0:15.5 | Today you'll learn about the life crushing conditions on Venus that could actually tell us |
0:19.8 | about life elsewhere in the universe. |
0:21.6 | How indigenous cultural fire burning could help us create |
0:24.7 | healthier forests, and the people who brew beer in their stomachs. |
0:29.9 | Wait, what? |
0:31.3 | Okay, let's find out. If you look at pictures of all of the planets in our solar system lined up next to each other, |
0:37.4 | you might think Venus is a bit of an Earth dupe. |
0:40.9 | It's the closest planet in size to our own, just slightly smaller than us. |
0:44.4 | It's about 30% closer to us than the sun, but like still the closest planet to Earth. |
0:49.6 | In fact, it's also called our sister planet. |
0:52.2 | But that is sort of misleading. In fact, it's also called our sister planet. |
0:52.5 | But that is sort of misleading. |
0:55.2 | Okay, in what ways? |
0:57.2 | Let me restate, actually, because sorta is sort of an understatement. |
1:02.4 | Well, we aren't totally sure what the surface looks like, |
1:05.0 | we know that surface temps reach a balmy 900 degrees Fahrenheit. |
1:10.0 | That's in no small part due to its super-dense atmosphere that's composed of around 96% carbon dioxide |
1:16.2 | Which has created a runaway greenhouse effect trapping heat and making Venus the hottest planet in the solar system |
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