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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."
Do we really have to go through this again? We'd already done swirling mists on Venus - then Pluto's frozen oceans.. now we're back on the swirling mists of Venus - I don't think anything has changed:
.it's a far cry from 'life'... in any interesting sense.. and it's also only a =maybe= 'bacteria'....
Some swirling anamolies 'could be life'... yeah right!?
I don't care - bacteria, it's not relevant..
Give us a digital watch (secondhand or so)... or a sock or a hat... a machine that goes 'ping' or 'beep'..
but weird swirls - there's more than one of those in the universe... even more than one in the solar system - no doubt.
---- *dog sitting next to a computer, with his beady eyes shifting left to right*
- Help in prooving that life may exist on other more distant planets
- Perhaps some insight into lifes origins on Earth
- Good curiosity value
Either way this wont change my life in any meaningful way except my paycheck will be needed to send up a few more space shuttles.----
bling bling i love to ping
Terraforming is science-fiction. Why debate whether or not to do something that simply isn't possible.
How ya like dat?