Makes me think the Soviets may have been correct in their obsession over Venus, if only by sheer luck.
Venus needs more attention. Mars is boring. Luna is boring. Venus might have some action. And what about Europa?
Enceladus is the new Europa!
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Europa is orbiting Jupiter. Jupiter puts out a lot of radiation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978670 For sure, Venus needs exploration. I'd like to see an orbiting station with a 10 year mission to explore the Venusian atmosphere via drones or other methods.
Any Europan life would be in its oceans, which are more than adequately shielded from radiation by a miles-thick layer of ice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)#Subsurface_ocean
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#23Makes me think the Soviets may have been correct in their obsession over Venus, if only by sheer luck.
Venus needs more attention. Mars is boring. Luna is boring. Venus might have some action. And what about Europa?
Mars is doable. Luna is convenient. Venus is pure acid under ridiculous pressure that melts any probe in minutes. Europa is too far for anything serious. Enceladus is even further away.
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#24For sci-fi fans, Stephen Baxter wrote a very cool short story about possible Venetian life. It's part of this collection, and I don't particularly want to spoil anything about it: https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?332397
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#27I think it is this paper? For the phosphine detections.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05160 ("Venus, Phosphine and the Possibility of Life")
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#28Here’s an annoying question: how would one play the discovery of Venusian life into personal gain? I’m thinking “startup/invest in space” as a starting point, but surely there’s a more fun/rediculous way. Let’s assume that these signals are indeed based in life, and that that life is mostly boring to laymen — some type of bacteria or lava tube denizen with minimal complexity, say
Maybe get started by speculating in real estate and mineral (gas?) rights. Don’t forget some sort of platform for managing space start up company HR training video sharing across different planetary time codes. It couldn’t hurt to try to patent whatever atmospheric components are on Venus just to establish some claim to ownership. Oh and interstellar crypto - duh.
Re: Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say
#29Here’s an annoying question: how would one play the discovery of Venusian life into personal gain? I’m thinking “startup/invest in space” as a starting point, but surely there’s a more fun/rediculous way. Let’s assume that these signals are indeed based in life, and that that life is mostly boring to laymen — some type of bacteria or lava tube denizen with minimal complexity, say
Found a new religion based on transpermia. Discovery of life on another planet would shake things up a little in the theology department.
Re: Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say
#30Here’s an annoying question: how would one play the discovery of Venusian life into personal gain? I’m thinking “startup/invest in space” as a starting point, but surely there’s a more fun/rediculous way. Let’s assume that these signals are indeed based in life, and that that life is mostly boring to laymen — some type of bacteria or lava tube denizen with minimal complexity, say
Found a new religion based on transpermia. Discovery of life on another planet would shake things up a little in the theology department.
Not really. I think most religions don't have an issue with the premise of alien life. They would simply fold it into their existing theology, as they have every new paradigm-shifting discovery about reality. Even the Catholic Church's stance is that if aliens exist, they're just another part of God's design.
And there are already plenty of cults and religions that incorporate aliens (cough Scientology cough.) It's going to be difficult to compete against Nordics and Greys and hyperdimensional ascended masters and Xenu with some Venusian moss on a rock.