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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."
Gotta be female. After all, Men are from Mars, etc.
Shopkeeper: "... I must warn you they've found life on venus."
Homer: "That's bad."
Shopkeeper: "But it was only some bugs!"
Homer: "That's good!"
Shopkeeper: "The news was reported on New Scientist."
Homer: "That's bad."
Shopkeeper: "But they don't require you to register!"
Homer: "That's good!"
Shopkeeper: "They log your IP address and keep logs of all the pages you go to."
[Silence; Homer looks puzzled]
Shopkeeper: "That's bad."
Homer: "Can I go now?"
Let's terraform the bastards before they evolve into ten foot tall insection beasts with razor sharp teeth, glistening with demonic slobber.
Terraform Venus Now!
NO TOUCH MONKEY!
> But this? Huge swarms that discolor the atmosphere under ultraviolet light? If true, I'd bet that these images become more popular than Cindy Margolis.
Only among them what get their Viagra and LSD mixed up.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Everyone knows that the Good Lord made life and He made it here on Earth only, your Bible tells you that!. You blasphemers are wasting your time on SETI and looking at other planets. Just like the dinosaurs and radio-carbon dating, it's just the devil playing tricks on your blasphemous souls. I know for sure there's no life but here where He intended and saw that it was Good, not on some hell-hole like Venus, or a frigid wasteland like Mars. You people, sheesh, you only need look around you to see you're wasting your time, and you ain't going to Heaven with me.
New York Times August 10th, 2010
:)
KILLER VENUS MICROBE BROUGHT BACK BY SWEDEN
"EATS EVERYTHING"
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The most important thing any republican needs to know.
Boy, you are going top burn in the lake of fire with all them other sodomites. I'll pray for your soul, so's maybe you'll let Jesus into your heart one day and be saved. But hurry, there ain't a lot a time left. You gotta let Him into your heart while you're still alive, before the End. The world will end at 14:35 hours, PDT August 14th 2003. Don't waste your time.
Hmph. Well don't I feel right well stupid. Thanks for the info though, that's pretty insane and interesting. Hmmm, perhaps we could change a few entries in holy scripture, make venus the new holyland, and send all the extremists and fundamentalists THERE?
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. I'd feel safer if I had two or three."
Yes. We put it there.
Here is the scenario as I see it.
1. Earth sends 'probes' (hee hee - he said 'probes') to Venus.
2. Earth accidentally 'seeds' Venus with our 'probes'.
3. New Scientist reports infected atmosphere on Venus. Possible bugs.
4. Earth sends more 'probes' to Venus to bring back sample.
5. Accidental release of sample into Earth's atmosphere......
6. ?
7. Profit.
8. Earth decimated by 'venereal'' bugs, or VD.
There you have it. We are the origin of our destruction.
Strange gases on Venus caused by..?
1) Complex atmospheric-solar interactions
2) Mysterious unknown life-forms
3) Cowboyneal
We may have found Lando's Cloud City. We must inform the Emperor. The Imeprial have already been dispatched. The rebel resistance will be crushed.
Regards,
D.V.
Two Towers-Two Worlds.One seeks triumphs and freedom for man.The other deems man unworthy and wrecks them.
There are more than a few explanations for that, I hate New Scientist, they jump to conclusions too often in an effort to drum up interest in their articles.
Or just to play head games with people for laughs. Eggs are good for you today and now they're bad for you again and now they're good for you again. Confusing isn't it?
And of course The ONION's take on this whimsy science... From FussyMonkey.COM (a wonderful archive of "The ONION RADIO NEWS")
http://www.fussymonkey.com/orn/
Snickering
Researchers Say Dog Urine Lowers The Risk Of Heart Disease
"Face it, a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
**keep your eyes on my buh buh-buh-buh bump**
I thought they had problems due to the heat. On 2 mission the lens cap melted
The lens cap melted?
For me, this phrase immediately summoned the image of forty russian scientists all huddle around a monitor, eagerly anticipating the first look of Venus's landscape, when one says "It's black! What in Lenin's name is going on?"
And then one of them gets a horrified look on his face, smacks his forehead, and says "ACK! I forgot to take the lens cap off before we launched it!"
Gee, this sounds familiar.
Temperature of 70C... check.
Earth-normal air pressure... check.
My God! Venus' atmosphere is just like the inside of a tricked-out 4.7GHz tower with neon and Nixie tubes.
NASA can save their money looking for life in an atmosphere like that. I've been to LAN parties -- you're not going to find a life anywhere near a box like that.