>They found that phosphine on Venus is a minor gas, existing at a concentration of about 20 out of every billion molecules in the atmosphere.>“We really went through all possible pathways that could produce phosphine on a rocky planet,” Dr. Petkowski said

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Ayy Lmao Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:55 No.3393

>They found that phosphine on Venus is a minor gas, existing at a concentration of about 20 out of every billion molecules in the atmosphere.
>“We really went through all possible pathways that could produce phosphine on a rocky planet,” Dr. Petkowski said.
>“If this is not life, then our understanding of rocky planets is severely lacking.”
http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/phosphine-atmosphere-venus-08847.html

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:55 No.3394

>>3393
>Mfw autists still think aliens live on Mars and not Venus

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:55 No.3395

>>3394
Mars used to have running water. There's a very good chance there was once life there and may be microbial life or something remaining.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:55 No.3396

*rips bong*
what if like… the aliens were already there and we're just detecting the particle remnants of their destroyed civilization? what if we missed our chance to make contact with extraterrestrial socialists?

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:55 No.3397

>>3395
very unlikely anything survived even if there was, any liquid water would be far too salty and would be deep underground. Venus is far more likely to have life, plus it almostly definitely had water oceans too in the past.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:55 No.3398

>>3397
Venus is more likely to have life, but life on Mars would be easier to detect, landers last an hour on Venus at most.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:55 No.3399

>>3397
Extremophiles exist on earth, and there are likely microbes frozen at our poles. It's plausible that some basic life could be living dormant on Mars.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:56 No.3400

>>3398
>>3397
>>3394
Venus has a car crushing atmosphere,red hot rocks and a rain of molten lead and sulfuric acid. There's nothing on venus.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:56 No.3401

>>3400
Only on the surface, not the upper atmosphere.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:56 No.3402

>>3400
That's bad for us but it's possible something can thrive in that environment. Shit evolves to suit its context.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:56 No.3403

If there is life on Venus there is also probably life underground on Mars and in the Titan's water.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:56 No.3404

>>3400
And yet as of now the odds of there being microbial life on Venus and not Mars is much higher. Would be interesting how this changes our understanding of the Universe if we find evidence that life is simple enough to produce that not only is there another inhabited planet in our own solar system, but it also exists in much more hostile conditions than Earth ever presented

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:56 No.3405

Reminder that everything we know about Venus is thanks to the soviet space program.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:56 No.3406

File: 1608528296669.jpg (60.04 KB, 998x500, VenusSovietVenera.jpg)

>>3405
There are even some surface pictures from the Soviet probe

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:56 No.3407

>>3406
It was also the first human probe to land on another planet.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:56 No.3408

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>>3401
>>3400
CLOUD PEOPLE

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:56 No.3409

>>3406
that's just a pic of California

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3410

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>>3393
Soviets had confirmed this 60 years ago.

Also lol at this response.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3411

>>3409
kek
>>3393
Sadly no space comrades evidence yet.
At least the phosphine seems to prove in a way that it's very likely that there is life in the high ups of Venus' clouds. But as other anon said, it's pretty difficult and there are more close plans to go to Mars than over there.
WERE ARE YOU SPACE COMRADES!
CHINA HAS AN ARRANGEMENT WITH THE AYYS TO DEVELOP THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES TO REACH INTERSTELLAR COMMUNISM?

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3412

>>3406
lush
>>3409
I thought california was red, not yellow.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3413

Handy video for anybody wondering about conditions in Venus' upper atmosphere and why it's so different from the hellish conditions on the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5KV3rzuag

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3414

>>3413
Didn't the idea of going to mars really start with the John Carter series?

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3415

What’s the point of manned space missions again? I’m fine with sending robots to other worlds for scientific research but sending humans into space seems pointless. Every single place in the solar system besides the Earth is completely inhospitable to human life and we'll never be able to colonize it.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3416

Terrible news for the great filter if life is easily evolved.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3417

>>3416
Could also mean that life is only common around stars similar to our own sun.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3418

>>3417
That's still too many for comfort.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3419

>>3416
Great Filter is a meme. The signals we've sent from Earth have almost entirely dissipated before they even leave the greater solar system because of the distance and amount of matter scattering them. Unless you are purposefully beaming a focused signal in a certain direction there's no reason to think it would be visible.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3420

>>3417
>>3419
>>3416
There's also multiple potential Great Filters (assuming the theory is correct). The formation of microbial life probably isn't it, since it seems to have formed on Earth very early in our history. The real leap in evolution that kickstarts increasing complexity seems to be eukaryotic and multi-cellular life. It took around a billion years for life to emerge on Earth, followed by ~2.5 billion of simple microbial life. In the last billion we've gone from prokaryotic cells to human civilization. This seems to point to the transition from single celled to multicellular life as the real hurdle.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3421

>>3415
Soviets wanted to go into space for the sake of humanity
Americans want to go into space so that rich people can escape from Earth

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3422

>>3420
>>3416
The great filter is Rightism.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3423

The great filter has to destroy all life, otherwise the galaxy should have already been converted to networked dyson swarms.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:57 No.3424

>>3406
I'm surprised that pics this high in quality could be captured at that time by space probes millions of kilometers away.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3425

>>3422
capitalism*

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3426

>>3424
it's just sending a radio signal, same tech that plays music

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3427

>>3422
>>3420
David Graeber thought the Great Filter might be "simulationism" or the tendency to isolate and focus on our drives instead of follow them to the "logical" conclusion. E.g. we have a drive for sweetness because eating fruits is good, but we have created sugary food to simulate what we evolved to want. Another one is that we like to make science fiction to entertain us and scratch the itch for technology and innovation.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3428

>>3427
Ah, alienation!

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3429

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File: 1608528298383-1.jpg (283.73 KB, 3826x128, C_Venera13_2.jpg)

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>>3424
It's as >>3426 says,
but those particular pics are colorized I believe.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3430

Hypothetically if you were to turn on a radio in the Alpha Centauri star system would you be able to pick up any signals from Earth or is it too far away?

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3431

Just imagine spending billions of dollars to build machines and rockets to find bacteria on nearby dead planets… I mean. who cares? what does it matter? We know life can exist on other planets so that's not really anything new.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3432

>>3430
Yes but you would just be picking up signals that were sent out 100 years ago.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3433

>>3432
>tfw the ayys would think the USSR still exists
:(

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3434

>>3432
>>3433
Bruh Alpha Centauri is only like 4-5 light years away. A listener there now would be getting broadcasts from 2015-2016.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3435

>>3396
its probably just bacteria

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3436

>>3435
I would be curious if alien lifeforms have DNA just like us, or something completely different from DNA that actually functions in an identical or very similar way.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:58 No.3437

>>3436
DNA is actually kind of mysterious because we don't actually need the 4 bases. 2 would be enough. So you could have a DNA with only 2 bases or with a different 4 or more than 4. There might also be a different way of solving the same basic problem of storing instructions for biological processes.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3438

>>3393

uigha that site is reddit-tier. there are multiple different ways phosphine can be generated by natural activity, for example the reaction of metal phosphides with water or an acid (venus has sulfuric acid clouds and a lot of metallic iron in meteorites has a decent percent of phosphorus dissolved in it as nickel/iron phosphide). still interesting, could tell us about the geology there and shit but its probably not life. even if it is its only gonna be bacteria.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3439

>>3415

if launch costs get really cheap asteroid mining and solar power satellites would probably be profitable enough to have some o'niell cylinders for the people working there but yeah until that happens not much point for anything manned besides the ISS and maybe a moon base

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3440

>>3400
Life uh finds a way.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3441

>>3431

if its legit it would be pretty useful for biology

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3442

>>3431
People said the same kind of thing about all kinds of discoveries including the ability to generate electric current.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3443

We need to consider military expenditure and advancement if alien life turns out to be common.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3444

>>3415
>What’s the point of manned space missions again? I’m fine with sending robots to other worlds for scientific research but sending humans into space seems pointless. Every single place in the solar system besides the Earth is completely inhospitable to human life and we'll never be able to colonize it.
Space-stations might one day become cheaper living arrangements, rising per-capita energy consumption may push people outside of planet atmospheres.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3445

>>3410
Venus is a communist planet. See the ubiquitous five point star, DeRerum Natura, Julius Caesar, Mo Zi.
Anyway, life is everywhere dormient, but only in few circumstances she can express herself i the way we normally recognize her; for her being the immortal seed from the real universe lost in this dead prison.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3446

>>3427
>Another one is that we like to make science fiction to entertain us and scratch the itch for technology and innovation.
you're an idealist now

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3447

>>3445
Mars is red and almost sounds like Marx. When we establish communism, we will rename it accordingly.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3448

>>3397
>any liquid water would be far too salty
I wouldn't be so sure. Scientists found microbes in Don Juan Pond and microbes are found in aquifers all the time.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:24:59 No.3449

>>3416
It took life billions of years on Earth for intelligence to evolve. Life is very different from intelligent life.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:00 No.3450

>>3445
Planeta Bur

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:00 No.3451

>>3413
thanks, I watched the first minute and already feel dumber

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:00 No.3452

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>mfw it turns out life probably already exist in the nearest planet to us
>but in the form of microbes
tbh I always thought Earth was kinda special…

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:00 No.3453

>>3444

this sounds dumb as shit at first but once you actually start reading about it its basically the only way for people to expand off earth, you can build ones miles in size with just steel or aluminium and spin them to fake gravity with centripetal force so you can make them reasonably earthlike in terms of someone living inside one in terms of "gravity"/air/water. plus due to how easy it is to exploit solar energy in space manufacturing costs for the raw materials needed to build them would be much lower than on earth

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:00 No.3454

>>3452
It could even be that the microbes originally came from earth, carried to venus via dirt ejected by meteor strikes.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:00 No.3455

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>>3448

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:00 No.3456

>>3452

if this is real (again, i'd guess its not) there is a good chance its related to earth life. there are a pretty large amount of meteorites that were originally from mars before getting blown off into space by large asteroid impacts and then hitting the earth without being melted or anything, there is a good possibility that the same thing happened with the earth and any bacterial spores or whatever that survived might be able to survive on venus, or even the other way around

https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00706

venus could have had oceans up until a few hundred million years ago so its not completely impossible

still this is probably due to some weird volcanism or something, iirc there was something similar to this with methane being detected in the atmosphere of mars but now the general consensus is that it is from some weird reaction between subsurface water, olivine, and co2

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:00 No.3457

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>>3454
>>3456
Oh man it will be even more disappointing to find out that Venusian life has Terran origins. But good food for thought for the origins of life.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:00 No.3458

>>3416
The phenomenon we call life is an inevitable result of the laws of physics and chemistry and it is likely abundant. Multicellular life might be rare, and intelligent life is probably obscenely rare.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:00 No.3459

>>3458
>we call life is an inevitable result of the laws of physics and chemistry and it is likely abundant.
Very big if true

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:01 No.3460

what if it was seeded from earth from a meteor impact or something

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:01 No.3461

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>>3458
>ontic teleology

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:01 No.3462

>>3406
I remember when I first saw this mindblowing photo. It was before I was a leftist consiously and i was mindblown that this was done so early in the history of space exploration.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:01 No.3463

>>3462
It's probably fake.

Anonymous 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:01 No.3464

>>3461
It’s all about the organized dissipation of energy
t. Low IQcel

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:01 No.3465

>>3429
Learn how space cameras work. They are coloured but in the same way earth cameras are.
Each "black and white image" is an image capturing a certain spectrum of light, or colour. Multiple images of the same scene are taken with multiple colour cameras, and those images can be compunded into a full colour image.

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:01 No.3466

>>3465
Meant to say "but not in the same way earth cameras are".

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:01 No.3467

>>3463
Why? The probe is still there as a visible pile of scrap up there. Plus taking and then uploading a few Mb of image is not that hard.

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:02 No.3474

>>3463
so was your mom

Comrade 12/21/20 (Mon) 05:25:02 No.3475

>>3462
Imagine if the USSR lasted long enough to send probes to the outer solar system

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