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Topic subjectIf there's life on Venus...do we REALLY want to keep prodding??
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13403502, If there's life on Venus...do we REALLY want to keep prodding??
Posted by FLUIDJ, Mon Sep-14-20 02:06 PM
I'm saying...



"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"
13403504, cant be any worse than what we got down here lol.
Posted by Reeq, Mon Sep-14-20 02:32 PM
13403510, On earth, if all else fails, I at least know I can do a makeshift flamethrower
Posted by FLUIDJ, Mon Sep-14-20 02:58 PM
to protect myself.....

but potential Venus aliens been lamping in 900° temps....my flamethrower ain't doing shit agains them....
13403512, throw some sonic ice at them
Posted by mista k5, Mon Sep-14-20 03:01 PM
keep some DQ blizzards on deck
13403515, damn, shoulda kept freezing my weights...
Posted by FLUIDJ, Mon Sep-14-20 03:01 PM

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"
13403566, Lmao
Posted by KiloMcG, Mon Sep-14-20 10:16 PM
13403570, bwahahaha
Posted by queenie, Tue Sep-15-20 07:26 AM

It's plenty of money to be made
from Candler Road to Bankhead
It's plenty of room to get paid
for those that ain't scared
13403571, LMAO
Posted by jimi, Tue Sep-15-20 07:29 AM
13403521, nah we dont even know everything in the ocean
Posted by BrooklynWHAT, Mon Sep-14-20 03:19 PM
im not willing to poohpooh other planets yet.
13403509, Life doesn't mean intelligent life.
Posted by Cold Truth, Mon Sep-14-20 02:57 PM
Until/unless there's an indication of intelligent life, I say probe further.

www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-life-clouds.html

This article states,

"Chemists compare phosphine to a pyramid — one atom of phosphorus topping a base of three hydrogen atoms. The NASA spacecraft Cassini detected it in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. In that setting, Dr. Sousa-Silva said, life is not necessary to form phosphine. The immense heat and pressures can jam the phosphrous and hydrogen atoms together to form the molecule.

But on smaller, rocky planets like Earth and Venus, the researchers say, there is not enough energy to produce copious amounts of phosphine in the same way. There is one thing, however, that appears to be very good at producing it: anaerobic life, or microbial organisms that don’t require or use oxygen."

What's really a trip here though, is that the article goes on to say that Venus has significantly more of it than Earth has.

Though, before we get too excited at the possibilities of this, the article also states:

"But scientists have yet to explain how Earth microbes make it.

There’s not a lot of understanding of where it’s coming from, how it forms, things like that,” said Matthew Pasek, a geoscientist at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

“We’ve seen it associated with where microbes are at, but we have not seen a microbe do it, which is a subtle difference, but an important one.”

I'll be interested to learn more about all of this.
13403513, They been evading us for this many years....is this a slip-up...or a signal??
Posted by FLUIDJ, Mon Sep-14-20 03:01 PM

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"
13403572, Just cuz Serena got a daughter no need to dis her sister like that
Posted by thegodcam, Tue Sep-15-20 07:30 AM
Not cool yo
13403574, chances are there was once life on Mars and Venus....
Posted by My_SP1200_Broken_Again, Tue Sep-15-20 07:51 AM
....whatever we end up finding there will be the very last shreds of life. If we ever reach Class 1 Civilization status, we can bring these planets back from the grave. We've got a long way to go.. collectively we are a very dumb lifeform.