Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted On Venus

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Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted On Venus

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:16AM from the we-are-not-alone dept.

flergum writes "Leonid Ksanfomaliti, an astronomer based at the Space Research Institute of Russia's Academy of Sciences, analyzed photographs taken by a Russian landing probe during 1982 and claims to have found signs of life. Ksanfomaliti says the Russian photographs depict objects resembling a 'disk,' a 'black flap' and a 'scorpion.'"

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Re:WWCSD? by nirgle · 2012-01-23 03:20 · Score: 5, Funny

What Would Charlie Sheen Do?
No pictures!~ by zidium · 2012-01-23 03:20 · Score: 5, Funny

No pictures were included, so how can we form our own, uneducated, opinions???

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1. Re:No pictures!~ by KBehemoth · 2012-01-23 03:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Couldn't find any pictures of the aliens, but I did locate schematics of the exploration vehicle: http://i.imgur.com/gER2w.jpg
2. Re:No pictures!~ by the_fat_kid · 2012-01-23 03:55 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  scorpion flap or gtfo?
  
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3. Re:No pictures!~ by VortexCortex · 2012-01-23 04:36 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  If putting my disk in a scorpion flap is wrong, I don't want to be right!
Scorpions? by vlm · 2012-01-23 03:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Leonid Ksanfomaliti, ...claims to have found signs of life...objects resembling ... a scorpion
I haven't heard the Scorpions since the 80s. They were pretty good in their niche. Is this a reunion tour?

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1. Re:Scorpions? by guttentag · 2012-01-23 03:42 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Leonid Ksanfomaliti, ...claims to have found signs of life...objects resembling ... a scorpion
  I haven't heard the Scorpions since the 80s. They were pretty good in their niche. Is this a reunion tour?
  Nope. The summary specifies that the scientist's claims are based on 30-year-old photos, which means they may have been on Venus then (which isn't so far-fetched... they opened for a group called UFO in 1972 and their guitarist then joined UFO, so it's quite possible that the scientist saw a UFO who looked like a Scorpion because he used to be one), but according to Wikipedia they've been back for some time now. In fact, their tour at the time of these photos was called the Blackout Tour. Curiouser and curiouser.
Re:WWCSD? by alphatel · 2012-01-23 03:31 · Score: 5, Funny

I for one, welcome our new disk, black flap, and scorpion overlords.

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Yahoos by InsertCleverUsername · 2012-01-23 03:31 · Score: 1, Funny

Sigh... I don't know if anything from Yahoo is even worthy of /. idle. The site is really a testament to what happens when a company stands still. Frequent users are almost exclusively people who landed there after AOL ceased to be a premiere destination (in popular culture). Just like Yahoo, they didn't upgrade and adapt. And that's why their user base is on the left side of the curve and their user-generated content is terrifyingly ignorant.
Come, stare into the abyss of people just smart enough to use a computer: Exhibit A: http://answers.yahoo.com/

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Re:mirage by AikonMGB · 2012-01-23 03:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Since when has temperature been measured in kilofarads?
Re:So... by Hartree · 2012-01-23 03:48 · Score: 3, Funny

"looked like a disk, a black flap, and a scorpion"
Is that like one of those drafting exercises where an object looks like a black flap from the front, a scorpion from the side, and a disk from above?
Re:WWCSD? by Gideon+Wells · 2012-01-23 03:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Claim he has Venusian Scorpian blood?

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Re:So... by gstoddart · 2012-01-23 04:10 · Score: 4, Funny

What in god's name does a "black flap" look like?
Usually, kinda black and flappy. :-P

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Re:mirage by viperidaenz · 2012-01-23 08:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Uranus has some pretty strong winds too...