Video companion · Worlds Gone Wrong

Earth's Twin Turned Into Hell

Name: Earth's Twin Turned Into Hell
Uploaded: 2026-04-25
Duration: 1 min 33 s
Channel: Rick Wood
Description: This companion follows Earth's Twin Turned Into Hell and opens the science behind Venus. It connects the video’s central reversal to the observations and missions that make the claim testable.

Earth’s near-twin is not a mild copy of Earth; a different atmospheric history made it the hottest planet.

1:33Published April 25, 2026Hosted by Rick Wood

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What you’ll discover

How a dense carbon-dioxide atmosphere traps heat
Why Venus rotates backward and unusually slowly
What spacecraft measurements reveal through the clouds

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