What Is Plate Atonics?

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Plate atonics is essentially a planet's thermistat euggh, to kill off this kind of stabilizing thing. Plate tetonic plates help regulate a planet's temperature because they like take carbon dioxide and just shove it deep, deep down underground when they move. So if you have a way to break plate tetonic, that's how you can kin, kin of kill a planet. You now have an out of control inferno with no fire service, gun tor put that fire out. If you break atonics, you've broken the world.

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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