Could Venus once have resembled a gas giant?

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My Venus- thread that leads a disgraceful existence in crackpots corner may be known here. It argues, supported by lots of evidence that Venus'spin has come to a standstill due to a "design flaw", generating an enormous heat in the process. This would have evaporated the oceans and dissocated the water, I tried to visualize how that would have looked at then another flash hit, probably like a gas giant like Uranus, Jupiter etc. A large gas ball with a denser but very hot core.

Hmmm

The gas giants all seem to be generating more heat than they receive from the sun.

Maybe not so much difference at all. Must investigate, but I have three more projects running.

Any ideas?
 
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here's a link to the TD thread...
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=2974&highlight=venus

Any ideas?

We're closing up shop on TD soon. Best to prepare a new submission for the upcoming outside-the-mainstream forum in order to rekindle the discussion...
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=81172