Alien life potentially discovered on Venus. This is the real deal

Started by Legend, Sep 14, 2020, 07:38 PM

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Legend

Decided to make a dedicated thread about this instead of just posting in my prediction thread haha.

Hints of life on Venus | The Royal Astronomical Society


TLDR: Phosphine gas detected in the atmosphere of Venus in relatively massive quantities. The only known source of that much phosphine is anaerobic microbial life.

Dr. Pezus

In the unlikeliest of places. This would change everything

Xevross

Oh dang this is crazy and it really is legit. Can't wait to find out the cause of the gas.

Legend

Sep 14, 2020, 08:12 PM Last Edit: Sep 14, 2020, 08:15 PM by Legend
In the unlikeliest of places. This would change everything
There are three possibilities if it's real.

Life could have came from Earth 4 billion years ago. We had huge impacts and tons of extremophiles that could have potentially survived the journey. If that happened, then this is still an incredible discover but wouldn't change much.

Also possible the opposite happened. Maybe life started on Venus and an impact brought life to Earth. That would be crazy knowing that we were "born" on Venus.

Third possibility is that life on Venus is independent. That'd change more than everything. Greatly increases the odds of there being intelligent life out there that is far more advanced than us.


Legend




the-pi-guy

Oh dang this is crazy and it really is legit. Can't wait to find out the cause of the gas.
What a strange sentence.  ;D

Legend

Will this slow down Moon and Mars stuff?

It seems like a race is on to reach Venus. If Russia and China make enough noise it could make congress care.


SpaceX could launch probes "now." Rocketlab is 2023. Landers would still be a few more years unless they were really cheap.

Venus is the closest planet and we can get there nice and fast. ~20 months between launch windows and ~1 month of travel. Nothing like outer solar missions.