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Possible Signs of Life Detected On Venus
MoThugz writes "This article from the The Houston Chronicle discusses the discovery of mysterious swirling patches on the surface of the planet which may be communities of bacteria. These bacteria might be a genetically-enhanced version of the thermophiles which are known to survive in extreme temperatures. The article suggested the bacteria could be using ultraviolet light from the sun as an energy source, which would explain the presence of strange dark patches on ultraviolet images of the planet."
These guys are GOOD!
Well, they _are_ from Venus.
.... those "dark patches" are just acne I'd bet. Our solar system is pretty young on the scale as things go in the universe, so Venus prolly just needs to wash up a bit better.
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Now you made Google News post old news as well and we get this chain of Google News from Slashdot News from Earlier Slashdot News (which I'm sure got covered on Google News as well).
Hm... On the other hand... Let's just blame it all on Houston Chronicle which posted the old story first.
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I think we need a new category on Slashdot; "Wild speculation about extraterrestrial life based on insubstantial evidence".
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Someone on Venus was flushing is toilet.
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Maybe this means they can do something about the strange lifeforms infesting uranus!
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These bacteria might be a genetically-enhanced version of the thermophiles which are known to survive in extreme temperatures
Does this only sound silly to me? They can't be genetically enhanced. If they exist, they're just the way our lord Venus Christ created them!
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That was Mars (Percival Lowell mapped and counted the canals). Sure, it's confusing, what with them having a capital letter in common, not to mention the same number of letters! Still, they're different. The moon was believed to be made out of cheese and Mars had lots little green men with shovels.
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The Houston Chronicle discusses the discovery of mysterious swirling patches on the surface of the planet which may be communities of bacteria
So either the RIAA have set up shop on a new planet, or evolution is starting on Venus, with lawyers...
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Why would you want to teraform Venus? Is Death Valley in the middle of summer too cool for you? Do you find lava to be refreshing? Been looking for a place where the trees spontaneously combust? Think it takes far too long to get skin cancer on Earth?
If so, maybe Venus is the place for you.
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Shuttle a bunch of antibiotics to Venus. If the dark patches go away, then we know bacterial life existed on Venus.
Science is fun.
I hope they don't bring it back to earth! Afterall, we've already seen what microbes from Venus can do in Night Of The Living Dead. Do we really want the dead rising from their graves again and devouring the living?
Aren't those the bacteria that started growing on my 1.4 GHz Athlon after I installed it during my lunch hour?
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I sure hope not. After all, that's just a figure of speech.
So that explains all those blackouts!
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