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Old 20-January-2008, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by DrWho View Post
Imagine that the Earth was shrouded in a thick, permanent cloud cover, like Venus, only without the greenhouse effect and pressures? Imagine that the cloud cover was total and permanent, all over the planet.

Would the human race be at a similar level of development today under those conditions?

...so you never read Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall"????? Same thing, just the opposite, with constant sunshine.
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