New Scientist: Venus' Atmosphere Implies Life

WolfWithoutAClause writes "This New Scientist article says that the atmosphere of Venus has features that may only be explaineable by the existence of life in its upper atmosphere. In particular it has cartain chemicals which are extremely difficult to make inorganically. At the altitude where life is suspected the temperature is about 70C and about 1 atmosphere. There are gases there which are not naturally found together. The article suggests something is actively producing them, quite possibly, life."

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exaggerated article title

[Anonymous Coward]

The New Scientist article title is "Acidic clouds of Venus *could* harbour life." To summarize, the New Scientist article basically says that Venus could have life, but nobody really knows for sure. But the slashdot article title is "New Scientist: Venus' Atmosphere Implies Life." Give me a break. I suspect Slashdot exaggerated the content of the posted article just to get page hits. Also, New Scientist is not one of the more reputable science news sites on the net (even though /. likes to link to their articles).

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I just hope they would...

[Kynde]

actually find some microbes or virii from Venus, Mars, hell even from Ganymede. That'd finally put a full stop to all those religious morons that are so full of "we're the centre of the universe". Just by showing that there's _a_ life form outside earth would remove a huge barrier from all those debates and we could concentrate on more interesting topics.

TELL YOUR LORD THAT I GAVE HIM GONORRHEA

[Anonymous Coward]

Re:We have Found Lando Calrissian's Hideout

[Anonvmous Coward]

As if anybody visiting this site would know how to find a life. Heh.