Venus

[editor]

Bring on the cloud-beings!

Venus isn't the only world beyond Earth where scientists have gotten a possible whiff of life.

Researchers announced today (Sept. 14) that they've spotted in Venus' air the fingerprint of phosphine, a stinky gas that here on Earth is produced only by microbes and humans, as far as we can tell.

The new find is not a detection of alien life. But it does suggest that something intriguing and mysterious may be occurring in Venus' clouds, an environment that astrobiologists have flagged as potentially habitable for microbial life.

The clouds of Venus join the shortlist for potential signs of life in our solar system

Scientists have spotted possible signs of life on multiple worlds beyond Earth.

www.space.com

 

[Pickman's model]

i think i can see where the next pandemick may come from

or the pandemick after next

 

[Fez909]

Bring on the cloud-beings!

Finally! Boro's time to shine

 

[alsoknownas]

I for one... etc.

 

[PTK]

I think it very exciting indeed, the news that there may be life on Venus. Send the probes now!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I welcome our new Venusian overlords.

 

[PTK]

I welcome our new Venusian overlords.

I think that they are a bit smelly.

By the way, scientists believe that the detection of certain gases outside a certain house in London is evidence that Sir Keir Starmer is actually alive.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I think that they are a bit smelly.

So are humans - everything smells.

 

[JimW]

It's just some stray penguin shit.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It's just some stray penguin shit.

Venusian monster shit, surely?

 

[JimW]

Venusian monster shit, surely?

Penguin shit was claimed as a phosphine source in the article I read. Science!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Penguin shit was claimed as a phosphine source in the article I read. Science!

Maybe penguins are from Venus and aliens have been walking amongst us unnoticed for years. Penguins are a bit odd really when you think about it.

 

[danski]

Maybe penguins are from Venus and aliens have been walking amongst us unnoticed for years. Penguins are a bit odd really when you think about it.

Yeah, I mean, like, they’re birds and they can’t even fly. Wtf?
All a bit fishy.

 

[moochedit]

Maybe penguins are from Venus and aliens have been walking amongst us unnoticed for years. Penguins are a bit odd really when you think about it.

Spiders are defo from venus. They have 8 eyes

 

[wayward bob]

the chances of anything coming from venus are a million to one.

it's 2020

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Yeah, I mean, like, they’re birds and they can’t even fly. Wtf?
All a bit fishy.

Penguins can fly, that's how they got to Venus in the first place, escaping the clutches of a polar bear probably.

 

[MickiQ]

I welcome our new Venusian overlords.

Still waiting for the Martian or Europan ones to show up

 

[NoXion]

i think i can see where the next pandemick may come from

or the pandemick after next

Highly unlikely. Even if Venusian microbes are compatible with Earthly organisms, they're adapted to live within the atmosphere of that hell-planet, and not the insides of Terran vertebrates, which tend to lack great quantities of sulphuric acid and other similar compounds.

Also, those Venusian microbes (should they indeed exist as long-term residents of that planet) haven't spent millions of years engaged in a fierce and unrelenting arms race with vertebrate immune systems.

Another problem for microscopic alien invaders is not just having to deal with our immune systems, but also the microbes that already live within our bodies.

Indeed, I would be more worried about Terran microbes potentially contaminating alien microbiomes. When it comes to seeking out life off-world, biosecurity protocols are just as much, if not more, about protecting the aliens as they are about protecting us.

 

[T & P]

After traditional wisdom had taught us, not unreasonably, that of all the worlds and Moons in the Solar System, Venus would be one of the most unlikely to harbour life (“the temperature would roast you, the acidity would dissolve you and the surface pressure would crush you” they said), it be amusing if it turned out to be the first extraterrestrial body confirmed to host life.

If any of those fuckers made it to Earth and started breeding we’d better hope they’re not harmful to life here, because good luck trying to get rid of them

 

[strung out]

After traditional wisdom had taught us, not unreasonably, that of all the worlds and Moons in the Solar System, Venus would be one of the most unlikely to harbour life (“the temperature would roast you, the acidity would dissolve you and the surface pressure would crush you” they said), it be amusing if it turned out to be the first extraterrestrial body confirmed to host life.

After Brexit, another one in the eye for our 'so called experts'.

 

[DotCommunist]

now we have to build those venus balloons again, but this time for a manned mission. Branson loves balloons and shit, send him, get his funding then kick him out the airlock

 

[WouldBe]

I think it very exciting indeed, the news that there may be life on Venus. Send the probes now!

With loads of alkaseltza to combat the acid.

 

[Ponyutd]

Saturn Moon and Mars. Trying to get to grips with setting all over again is a nightmare. Have
to refer to a setting booklet.

 

[tony.c]

Well I'm pretty sure the very bright object I saw between 5 -5.40 this morning was Venus.

 

[Argonia]

Any news on the possible lifeforms on Venus?

 

[editor]

Any news on the possible lifeforms on Venus?

It's all gone a bit

'Grand claims' of life on Venus lack evidence, skeptics say

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

www.space.com

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It's all gone a bit

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'Grand claims' of life on Venus lack evidence, skeptics say

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

www.space.com

It's been two weeks and you want hard evidence, ffs. If they came via France they'd still be in quarantine...

 

[Flavour]

I mean, if there are microbes high up in the atmosphere of Venus, then that makes the Fermi paradox even more unsettling, as it would suggest life is indeed very common and hardy indeed

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

I mean, if there are microbes high up in the atmosphere of Venus, then that makes the Fermi paradox even more unsettling, as it would suggest life is indeed very common and hardy indeed

At the microbial level, anyway.

 

[Flavour]

a universe teeming with microbes and very few intelligent life forms also quite terrifying tbh