Venus (planet)

• suitable for life?

15:6.15In your super­uni­verse not one cool planet in forty is hab­it­able by be­ings of your or­der. And, of course, the super­heated suns and the frigid out­ly­ing worlds are un­fit to har­bor higher life. In your so­lar sys­tem only three plan­ets are at pres­ent suited to har­bor life. Uran­tia, in size, den­sity, and lo­ca­tion, is in many re­spects ideal for hu­man habi­ta­tion.

• mortals living on V. would be superbreathers

49:2.13Be­ings such as the Uran­tia races are clas­si­fied as mid-breathers; you rep­re­sent the av­er­age or typ­i­cal breath­ing or­der of mor­tal ex­is­tence. If in­tel­li­gent crea­tures should ex­ist on a planet with an at­mo­sphere sim­i­lar to that of your near neigh­bor, Venus, they would be­long to the super­breather group, while those in­hab­it­ing a planet with an at­mo­sphere as thin as that of your outer neigh­bor, Mars, would be de­nom­i­nated sub­breathers.

• retrograde motion proves V. was originally satellite of Angona

57:5.13While An­gona was un­able to cap­ture any of the so­lar mass, your sun did add to its meta­mor­phos­ing plan­e­tary fam­ily some of the cir­cu­lat­ing space ma­te­rial of the vis­it­ing sys­tem. Due to the in­tense grav­ity field of An­gona, its trib­u­tary plan­e­tary fam­ily pur­sued or­bits of con­sid­er­able dis­tance from the dark gi­ant; and shortly af­ter the ex­tru­sion of the so­lar sys­tem an­ces­tral mass and while An­gona was yet in the vicin­ity of the sun, three of the ma­jor plan­ets of the An­gona sys­tem swung so near to the mas­sive so­lar sys­tem an­ces­tor that its grav­i­ta­tional pull, aug­mented by that of the sun, was suf­fi­cient to over­bal­ance the grav­ity grasp of An­gona and to per­ma­nently de­tach these three trib­u­taries of the ce­les­tial wan­derer.

57:5.14All of the so­lar sys­tem ma­te­rial de­rived from the sun was orig­i­nally en­dowed with a ho­mo­ge­neous di­rec­tion of or­bital swing, and had it not been for the in­tru­sion of these three for­eign space bod­ies, all so­lar sys­tem ma­te­rial would still main­tain the same di­rec­tion of or­bital move­ment. As it was, the im­pact of the three An­gona trib­u­taries in­jected new and for­eign di­rec­tional forces into the emerg­ing so­lar sys­tem with the re­sul­tant ap­pear­ance of ret­ro­grade mo­tion. Ret­ro­grade mo­tion in any as­tro­nomic sys­tem is al­ways ac­ci­den­tal and al­ways ap­pears as a re­sult of the col­li­sional im­pact of for­eign space bod­ies. Such col­li­sions may not al­ways pro­duce ret­ro­grade mo­tion, but no ret­ro­grade ever ap­pears ex­cept in a sys­tem con­tain­ing masses which have di­verse ori­gins.