Cincinnati, Houston, Venus—Hot As Hell
I’m just back from a week in Cincinnati. (Everyone vacations in Cincinnati—Right?) Every day I was there it was hot. On two days of my trip it reached 100 degrees.
Now back home in Houston, it is expected to be at least 100 each of the next two days.
It’s not just Earth where it is hot.
According to the 2006 New York Times Almanac, the average surface temperature on Venus is 867 degrees.
( I’ll leave it to you to decide if the above picture is of Cincinnati, Houston or Venus)
Says the Times Almanac—”The clouds and the high level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have combined to trap heat in the lower atomosphere of venus. This is an extreme form of the greenhouse effect….”
Some think life might be possible on Venus. A theory exists that microbes from a long ago ocean on Venus may have found a home up in the swirling hot clouds of that planet.
Venus can be called the “morning star” because it is one of the brightest objects in the sky.
In his sermon “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life“, Martin Luther King says that you might wish to see God as a “bright and morning star” in your life.
King saw the three dimensions of a complete life as rational self-concern, concern for others and loving God.
The three planets closest to the sun are Mercury, Venus and the Earth.
