phosphine is this gas that's just really strongly associated with life. So here on earth, bacteria make it, in swamps and in the intestines of animals. Other scientists have analyzed this data and say, like, they don't see the phosphene. But a lot of people just see phosphine as an exciting clue in the direction of life. If there is life on venus, it is probably of a tipe that we cannot now imagine. Can we try to imagine it? Though, we heard in the first the show just how terrible of a hellscape venus is. I mean, how could life actually survive there? What kind of life would that be?
Venus is the hottest, scariest planet in the solar system, but billions of years ago it may have been a lot like Earth, complete with an ocean of water. So, how did Venus go to hell? And could Earth be next?
This is the final episode of our four-part series, Lost Worlds, and it originally ran on December 1, 2021.
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