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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."
Is this scientific evidence that women consist mostly of gas?
That explains all the e-mail I get from routers on Mars.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
I mean, it always feel impressive to say "our CPU runs at a tenth of the room temperature", doesn't it? :-)
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Ok, I'll bite on this troll....
Time to put mt Christian Hat on... So you are putting limitation on God?? God doesnt have the ability to make other forms of life elsewhere? Man is sooooo special that God wouldnt create life elsewhere? wow how self centered and important of you...
You disgrase God by your thoughts that God doesnt have the abnility to do this... Go get more faith weak one.
Scientist hat on.....
It doesnt matter, BTW are you from Salt Lake, UT?
we coule have contaminated Venus with our probes, it could be a native form (at 70C?? I doubt it) or it could be cross contamination from Mars, or even from another galaxy.... riding in on a meteorite.
Life takes a ton of effort to become, but once it is it is tenacious and will do what it can to survive no matter what.
Look at the earth... life in the polar regions, live at crushing ocean pressures, life deep underground in rock...
Life--- it takes near impossible effort to create, but nothing to keep spreading.
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.
No it wouldn't. Faith is by definition a belief that exists without any supporting evidence, or contrary to evidence.
But if we've learned anything from watching Star Trek, you should realize that this is exactly how one of those alien beings will either:
Obviously, these are issues which must be fully investigated before we risk sending a probe into the Venus atmosphere. I'm sure NASA will develop contingency plans to deal with these risks.
Quoted:
1. Put a vehicle in orbit.
2. Insert a probe into the atmosphere (either from the orbiter or as a separate vehicle). This probe could use one or more of several techniques (parachute, winged design (no retro-thrusters at this stage as this may contaminate the samples)) to perform a fairly slow and controlled descent.
3. The probe fills a small canister with gas (possibly several compartments from different altitudes) and propels it back up into orbit before the pressure and gravity gets too high
4. Dock the canister with the orbiter and send it back to earth.
Let's break it down:
a - prefix meaning lack of.
theism - belief in a god or gods.
atheism - lack of belief in a god or gods.
Atheists do not necessarily claim that there are no gods, only that they have no belief in them.
-- Give me ambiguity or give me something else!
Dear God no! Then the shivans will come and destroy us all!
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Which reminds me of...
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The old ones...
Question: How many Internet mailing list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?
Answer: 1374.
1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mailing list that the light bulb has been changed, 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently, 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs, 27 to point out spelling errors in posts about changing light bulbs, 53 to flame the spell checkers, 41 to correct spelling in the spelling flames, 156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mailing list, 109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this e-mail exchange to another list, 203 to demand that cross posting to other lists about changing light bulbs be stopped, 111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts _are_ relevant to this mailing list, 309 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique, and what brands are not so good, 27 to post web addresses where one can see examples of different light bulbs, 14 to post that the web addresses were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected ones, 33 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and footers, and then add 'Me Too!', 12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy, 19 to quote the 'Me Toos' to say, 'Me Three!', 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ, 48 to propose new <change.lite.bulb> newsgroup, 47 to say there is already an <alt.light.bulb> newsgroup, 143 to ask if anyone ever did change the light bulb. Friday, May 31. Back in June!
Okay, I had to Karma Whore just for the sake of it (sad when we define the nature of the reposter).
"Face it, a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
A few years back an alien space ship picked me up and were taking me to their home planet. Well about the time we got to Venus I had to fart. I figured since these guys didn't have any noses they would'nt smell anything, so I cracked one off.
Was I wrong! those guys were really pissed that I polluted their spaceship. They immediately vented the stench in the Venetian atmosphere and took me back home. This "gas" that this scientist discovered actually eeked out my butt and is floating around venus. And if the scientist does further analysis, he will find that it was produced by two beef and bean burrito's from Taco Bell. So there you have it.
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
"I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!"
Oh, I agree. I mean, no Christian writer ever admitted the possibility of life outside of Earth. I can't think of a single devout Christian writer who even considered it.
Just because you're not religious, friend, doesn't mean that you're not also a moron.
hyacinthus.
Watch for spaces in the URLs.
Rather than add this stupid disclaimer, why not just make them links so this doesn't happen?