Wet Venus

A map of Venus showing what it would look like if it possessed the same amount of water as Earth.

Interesting…

I often wonder if humans didn't originate there (or Mars, for that matter), fucked up their ecosphere like we're doing now, and a few thousand (or whatever number constitutes a viable genetic diversity breeding minimum) managed to escape to Earth to start the cycle all over.

Once again I am reminded of the famous line from Battlestar Galactica: "All this has happened before and will happen again."

According to Claude AI…

…this is how the US should be divided into states.

On the other hand, this is a map (not AI generated) of what the country would look like if all the various proposals to split/combine/gain states actually came to fruition over the course of our history: