Possible life on Venus.

[Boothen]

Or up in the atmosphere to be exact. There maybe life, albeit microbial, floating around in the atmosphere of Venus. If that turns out to be true, and life can actually exist in those conditions, then it's a damn good bet that the universe is teeming with life.

ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/hints-life-venus

astrobiology.com/2020/09/phosphine-detected-in-the-atmosphere-of-venus---an-indicator-of-possible-life.html



And now with the director of NASA pledging to make Venus a priority after this discovery, things are going to get fun. My money was on Europa, Titan or Pluto as the first place for alien life to be discovered in the solar system - in fact anywhere but Venus.

[lordb]

I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been more made if this

[Boothen]

Sept 15, 2020 20:15:26 GMT lordb said:

I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been more made if this

I know. If this pans out and the phosphine is actually being produced by microbes then it ranks up there as one of the single most important scientific discoveries ever. Up there with fire and gravity.

[Deleted]

Sounds like they have pigeons to me

Basically means that Venus will be covered in space plop

[felonious]

If they can survive there it proves that we don't need to worry about global warming.

[spitthedog]

Let's hope its got more intelligence than the one found on this planet.

[mattyd2]

How do they actually know it's phosphene.

[Deleted]

Sept 16, 2020 11:28:27 GMT mattyd2 said:

How do they actually know it's phosphene.

comes in quite a unique green bottle where other  shampoos tend to be a more bog standard colour. Stunglike hell as am sure as a kid my Mum got more in my eyes