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New Results From Venus Express

Posted by kdawson on from the evil-twin dept.

Riding with Robots writes "For the past two years, Europe's Venus Express orbiter has been studying Earth's planetary neighbor up close. Today, mission scientists have released a new collection of findings and amazing images. They include evidence of lightning and other results that flesh out a portrait of a planet that is in many ways like ours, and in other ways hellishly different, such as surface temperatures over 400C and air pressure a hundred times that on Earth. The article lists seven papers that will be published today in Nature."

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  1. Re:Venus by kalirion · · Score: 2, Funny

    The article is about Venus, not Urectum.

  2. Re:Venus by calebt3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Should have gone with Uranus.

  3. So women really do come from venus? by ByOhTek · · Score: 4, Funny

    They include evidence of lightning and other results that flesh out a portrait of a planet that is in many ways like ours, and in other ways hellishly different, such as surface temperatures over 400C and air pressure a hundred times that on Earth.


    <SARCASM>
    Ahh, dense and full of hot air. Definetly proof that women come from there!
    </SARCASM>
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  4. Re:Venus by PatPending · · Score: 2, Funny

    The problem with Uranus is: no one can go near it because of the toxic gases.

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  5. And in other news... by downix · · Score: 4, Funny

    The next headline from a Venusian lander will be "Lander finds newspaper with headline 'President claims Global Warming a myth'".

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    1. Re:And in other news... by thrillseeker · · Score: 2, Funny

      The next headline from a Venusian lander will be "Lander finds newspaper with headline 'President claims Global Warming a myth'".

      No, Carl Rove had all those destroyed by our secret space force - you don't think NASA has actually been twiddling its thumbs the last 40 years do you?

  6. solar flairs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sun: We need to talk about your flair.
    Venus: Really? I have 15 pieces on. I also...
    Sun: Well, 15 is the minimum, okay?
    Venus: Oh, okay.
    Sun: Now, you know, it's up to you whether or not you wanna just do the bare minimum or...well, like Earth for example, has 37 pieces of flair on today. And a terrific smile.

  7. Re:Fun debate in the car by techpawn · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what your saying is Noah was a Venusian and was tasked with the mission to bring a sample of all life forms to the next planet in an interplanetary Ark because God (the Sun) was about to destroy all life by making the whole world uninhabitible.
    Yeah, something like that. A "flood" doesn't HAVE to be water, the planet could have been flooded with heat and radiation. With our luck we where the B Ark.
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  8. Re:Hellish twin ... by Fear+the+Clam · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always wondered why Doom takes place on Mars. Venus would be so much more appropriate.

    Doubt it.
    Mars is the god of war.
    Venus is a vibrating razor for women.

  9. Re:Missing factor by fbjon · · Score: 3, Funny

    *Except my wife. While she has a planetary body, it in no way resembles the classical representations of Venus that I have seen. I think heavenly body is the phrase you're looking for, unless you mean your wife is morbidly spherical.
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  10. Re:something is replacing the atmosphere by antifoidulus · · Score: 2, Funny

    So I have a box full of pingpong balls and .50 calibre lead shot.

    Sounds like the cops are going to be paying a visit to your fraternity house before the night is through.....

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  11. Frozen vacuum by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure that the beings living on Venus are sure that life cannot exist on the frozen vacuum that is Earth.

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