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Life spotted on Venus: Russian scientist

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MOSCOW: Several objects resembling living beings were detected on photographs taken by a Russian landing probe in 1982 during a Venus mission, says an article published in the Solar System Research magazine.
Leonid Ksanfomaliti of the Space Research Institute of Russia's Academy of Sciences published a research that analysed the photographs from the Venus mission made by a Soviet landing probe, Venus-13, in 1982.

The photographs feature several objects, which Ksanfomaliti said, resembled a "disk", a "black flap" and a "scorpion".
All of them "emerge, fluctuate and disappear", the scientist said, referring to their changing location on different photographs and traces on the ground.
"What if we forget about the current theories about the non-existence of life on Venus, let's boldly suggest that the objects' morphological features would allow us to say that they are living," the magazine quoted Ksanfomaliti as saying.
No data proving the existence of life on Venus, where the ground temperature is 464 degrees Celsius, has ever been found.


http://articles.timesofindia.indiat...231_1_venus-mission-russian-scientist-landing

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30 years ago, and it's just making the news... in that publication??? Put me in the extremely doubtful camp. If this had been posted in, ohhh, the mid 1980's in something respectable out of Russia, you could have put me in the excited and hopeful of its truth camp.
 
Life would have to work it's way up. There can't be scorpion-like creatures without something for them to eat. If there was life (higher than single cell) on Venus we would see an ecosystem not just a few creatures.
 
The surface temp of Venus is 800-900F, the surface pressure from the atmosphere is over 90x that of Earth, and the atmosphere is loaded with sulfuric acid.

Sorry...not a chance for even the heartiest life form to take root there.
 
Fritzo said:
The surface temp of Venus is 800-900F, the surface pressure from the atmosphere is over 90x that of Earth, and the atmosphere is loaded with sulfuric acid.

Sorry...not a chance for even the heartiest life form to take root there.
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Taking the temperature out of the question, we have living organisms that thrive in the depths of the ocean trenches where the "atmospheric pressure" is orders of magnitude greater than that which we experience here on the surface.

We have also identified life that thrives on sulfur-based compounds near geothermal vents. We have also identified organisms that thrive in highly-acidic areas, particularly near similar geothermal vents. This makes the notion of sulfur-based life not quite so absurd.

Now as to the question of temperature, that's a tough one. We do know there are organisms that thrive in high-temperature environments, but by high-temperature we're talking 70-80C, not 400-500C. But who knows?
 
In other news, the Russian scientist has professed his desire to be returned to Earth at some point in the near future.
 
While I don't think we can take this at face value as evidence, I've long held a belief that if there is life, it doesn't necessarily have to exist in the conditions we are accustomed to. We drown under water , but fish don't right?

Scientists look for life in conditions we understand because that is the easiest way to compare. We look for places that carbon based beings could exist as a starting point because the universe is so vast and carbon based life is what we understand.
 
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Fritzo said:
The surface temp of Venus is 800-900F, the surface pressure from the atmosphere is over 90x that of Earth, and the atmosphere is loaded with sulfuric acid.

Sorry...not a chance for even the heartiest life form to take root there.
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Not as we know it.
 
I will demonstrate my awesome clairvoyance by predicting this "scientist" will soon have an on-screen contract with the History Channel for one of their tabloid shows.
 
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