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Alien Environments

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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What Is the Problem With Liquid Carbon Dioxide?

No liquid water on any planet whose atmosphere is below 0.6% of sea level pressure. Venus has a surface pressure about 95 times higher than Earth and thus can have liquid carbon dioxide, but the temperature is too hot for it not to boil. A volcanically active planet that was about room temperature could have a high pressure and strange mixes of CO2 into water and soil and sky. It's likely this is common throughout the cosmos.

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