Going to wikipedia and verifying this seems like more work than I feel like doing at the moment, but I believe that's Mercury.spectrenihlus said:Isn't Venus's day length longer than it's year meaning one side is basically super hot and the other super cold, therefore it would be way to cold and hot at the same time for life (even for extremophiles) to exist Or am I completely wrong on this.
You're both correct:Cody Holden said:Going to wikipedia and verifying this seems like more work than I feel like doing at the moment, but I believe that's Mercury.spectrenihlus said:Isn't Venus's day length longer than it's year meaning one side is basically super hot and the other super cold, therefore it would be way to cold and hot at the same time for life (even for extremophiles) to exist Or am I completely wrong on this.
That said, Venus is definitely still too hot for extremophiles.
Okay, I'm sorry, but could it maybe be that there is some group of trolls calling themselves "Russian scientists" who constantly come up with stupid things they feed to news outlets? There have been roughly a dozen articles like this ("Russian scientists claim to have evidence for Yeti's existence" or something along those lines, for example) over the past couple of months and I refuse to believe that such people are called scientists and that Russia has such a large population of them.Greg Tito said:snip
Well a lifeform (i dont know what kind) was discovered on earth that uses deadly arsenic in its systems in place of where literally everything else uses phosphorus, and a slug at the bottom of the ocean that, for lack of better words, is made of metal.Revnak said:Don't you need some kind of stable fluid to support life? What is he postulating this fluid is? Fucking battery acid? And the atmosphere there is crazy reactive. Whatever the fuck could survive that. it certainly shouldn't be allowed to exist within my universe. I say we nuke Venus from orbit just to make sure.
Finally. Somebody else with that sentiment. Our only example of life is life on Earth...which could be totally unique. Perhaps it's not a 'perfect mix' of temperature and environment, we simply evolved out of what we were given, whereas the acid clouds of Venus are actually capable of supporting life. Not saying that they are, but it's definitely a ridiculous idea to just dismiss all possibility of life on non-Earth planets simply because 'science says it's impossible'.BiH-Kira said:The problem with searching for life in the universe is that we search for things that that are like the life on earth.
Something that needs O2 and H2O.
It is highly possible that if we find a life form that doesn't fit that description, we would just overlook it.
And another problem is that journalists will write "Scientist says" in front of everything that they like so that it looks better and has "credibility".
That's pretty much what I was thinking. One has to remember that ours is not necessarily the standard for all life forms. In theory life could develop just about anywhere, all it really needs is a means to sustain itself and a means to reproduce. All that's needed is the right conditions for life to form on the first place, the rest is just a matter of adapting to the given environment. Now what those conditions are remains a mystery, esp considering ours is not the standard for life forms.BiH-Kira said:The problem with searching for life in the universe is that we search for things that that are like the life on earth.
Something that needs O2 and H2O, carbon based.
It is highly possible that if we find a life form that doesn't fit that description, we would just overlook it.
And another problem is that journalists will write "Scientist says" in front of everything that they like so that it looks better and has "credibility".
Because the pictures where taken like... 30 years ago?LarenzoAOG said:Russia is a superpower isn't it, how can they afford a fucking space probe but not an HD color camera to put on it?
Well, In Star Trek, The Planet Vulcan is extremely similar to Venus.Greg Tito said:I think Ksanfomaliti is definitely bold for suggesting there could be life under those acidic clouds perfectly adapted to high temperatures and poisonous atmosphere but the thought experiment is more fiction than science. I once imagined that Venus was the birth place of the human race and we barely escaped the ecological disaster there to colonize Earth, but I was ten.
In that case why did anyone wait 30 years to give a shit?BiH-Kira said:Because the pictures where taken like... 30 years ago?LarenzoAOG said:Russia is a superpower isn't it, how can they afford a fucking space probe but not an HD color camera to put on it?
The cost of a time machine to get a decent camera from the future were probably too much to bear for 1982's Soviet Union...LarenzoAOG said:Russia is a superpower isn't it, how can they afford a fucking space probe but not an HD color camera to put on it?
oh russia how hard is it realy to get a dolorian up to 88mphMonsterfurby said:The cost of a time machine to get a decent camera from the future were probably too much to bear for 1982's Soviet Union...LarenzoAOG said:Russia is a superpower isn't it, how can they afford a fucking space probe but not an HD color camera to put on it?
Okay, the first one looks absolutely stupid. A scorpion? If I didn't know better, I'd say that was an amoeba under a crappy microscope.DVS BSTrD said:In Soviet Russia, pictures take YOU!Mr.Mattress said:As an old saying goes, Russia: "Pics or it didn't happen". However, it would be cool if they do provide evidence and it looks authentic.
<spoiler= Scorpion>http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/23/article-2090556-116B1ED7000005DC-411_468x396.jpg<spoiler= Disc>http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/23/article-2090556-116BEFC9000005DC-454_468x286.jpg
By the way, I do NOT recommend searching "probe Venus 13" with SafeSearch off.