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Venus: The Forgotten Planet
Anonymous Coward from Winnipeg writes "These days many of us are consumed by daily batches of spectacular images from our twin Marsbots and international fleet of Mars-orbiting craft. But we should not forget our sister planet, Venus, which has undergone significant exploration in years past. Don P. Mitchell's home page features an intriguing refinement of Soviet surface images using modern reprocessing techniques. Don also includes a terrific overview of the Soviet Venus exploration program. Complete radar mapping of Venus was provided by Magellan ten years ago. Sadly, according to the Venus Exploration Timeline, only two new missions to Venus are envisioned: ESA's Venus Express (using leftover Mars Express and Rosetta equipment) and JAXA's Planet-C orbiter. Apparently, no landings on Venus are planned - is this another case of humanity losing advanced space travel capability due to neglect, like Apollo?" (We've mentioned Mitchell's reworked images before -- amazing stuff.)
that's because neptunian food is to spicy. they always have to knock it up another notch.
Landing is not currently possible with the level of technology you puny earthlings currently possess. Our atmosphere would crush you faster than you can say Venusian.
You know the saying, women are from Venus...; ergo geeks don't get any women, so therefore Venus is forgotten.
It's sexism pure and simple. Mars is the male god of war, and Venus is a goddess. The male chauvenists are the REAL reason almost nobody cares about Venus, and to think, I thought sexism was dead. It's a male dominated solar system.
K
What if we sent some torpedo to Venus that somehow magically scooped all the atmosphere off. Here's my question: Would it come back on its own, or would it be gone forever?
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Uranus is. There are love songs to Venus and people are always talking about the Mars-Venus duality, but poor Uranus is never the topic of polite conversation, unless it's being made the butt of jokes.
I know that the continual 1200 F sulfuric acid rain is a bummer.
Maybe we could nuke the planet into a nuclear winter to cool it down?
I think I'm going to patent it.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
THRILL at its seductive mistresses of mayhem!
MARVEL at the wonders of the future!
EXPERIENCE the mysteries of the forgotten planet.
Our biggest threat came from our very own solar system.
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Did anyone anyone think cheap sci-fi feature when reading the heading?
- Mad, ingenous - they've both left you puzzled -
I think Venus still takes a back seat to the moons of Jupiter. That's where the future action is going to be.
Except Europa, of course.
1. attach microphone to your 'puter, dude.
2. open sound recorder, on your `leet XP box
3. blow into above microphone
4. ???
5. Die
Damn, the idiots are out tonight. Maybe a full moon? or is it a full Venus?
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I suppose the French can lay an equal claim to them too?
The really great thing is that after America is consigned to the history books under the heading 'Other empires of note', the scientific benefits will still be there ...
I'd completely forgotten about Venus.
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I'd put up a few bucks of my own money to fund a study on the effects of high temperatures, high pressures, and corrosive vapors on spammers.
Does NASA have a Paypal account?
The problem with Venus is that it is one of the most hostile environments we've yet to find in our searches. It's hot, it's acidic, and so it's hard on equipment, and it's potential for harboring life is low (given what little we know about the subject).
kinda like my ex-girlfriend then
The planet is thought to have been completely resurfaced around 500 million years ago, with relatively little geological activity since then. Why?
The aliens screwed up their first attempt at planting humans, and decided to flush Venus clean and try a new colony on Earth. I think they are reaching for the handle again.
Table-ized A.I.
Not only worthless in terms of manned travel, but quite a bit more complicated in terms of unmanned exploration. I've got to believe that equipment survivability on Mars is a lot better than on Venus due to that ridiculously high temperature, which approaches that of an uncooled Nvidia video card.
Heh. By that same token, you could reason that Cabot Cove, Maine is an exceptionally nasty place to live considering that they have a murder every week, even though it's a pleasant little east-coast town.
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
The reason we send so many more probes to Mars than to Venus is that a good day on Mars is a lot like a bad day in Antarctica, at least if you're a robot probe. A good day on Venus is more like a bad day in Hell.
Restarting the core is simple. Haven't you seen the movie?
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You never watched Space Balls, did you? All you need is an obscenely large capital ship that transforms into a giant maid and you're all set!