If you were on the surface of Venus, assuming you could see the Sun, which, you know, would be hard because it's so cloudy there, but the Sun would actually rise in the west and set in the east. And, it would do so very, very slowly, because the planet rotates incredibly slowly.

It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.

A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.

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