Venus has long been held up as a cautionary tale for everything that could go wrong on a planet like earth.

长期以来，金星一直被认为是一个警示故事，告诉我们在像地球这样的行星上，任何事情都可能出错。

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Since the lifetime of a planet like ours is several billion years, we can expect that, if other civilisations do survive in our galaxy, their ages will range from zero to several billion years.

由于我们这样的行星的寿命是几十亿年，我们可以预测，如果我们星系中有其他生物生存，它们的年龄将从零到几十亿岁不等。

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At most, it would become a super hothouse planet like Venus?

最多，它也就是变成像金星一样的超级温室行星。

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It was like going to a different planet. It was beautiful, it was an amazing,a frightening just yet invigorating experience."

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Suppose the planet were hit by a comet-- this happened--something like this happened sixty-five million years ago, so it could happen again.

假设这个星球被一颗彗星击中-,这样的事，大约六千五百万年前,发生过，所以它还可能再发生。

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The object moved slowly in the sky like a distant planet.

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Since the very first planets outside our solar system were discovered in the early 1990s, the hope has been to find an "Earth twin" - a planet like ours, orbiting a star like ours, at a distance like ours.

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