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Potential for life in Venus detected

RayDunzl

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The hard part is getting any results before the lab melts.

Guiness World Record for Operations on Venus:

"The Venera 13 lander (USSR/Russia) touched down on the surface of Venus at 03:57 UTC on 1 March 1982. Given the brutally harsh atmosphere of the planet, the lander was only expected to survive for about 30 minutes before being overwhelmed by the furnace-like heat and crushing pressure. Thanks to its extremely rugged design (it more closely resembled a deep-sea submarine than it did the landers that have been sent to Mars or the Moon), it managed to keep transmitting data until 06:04 UTC, 127 minutes later."
 

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If Venus is habitable, humanly livable, hospitable...can we make it there before an effective enough COVID-19 vaccine that @ least 50% of the world population (7.8 billion) TRUST enough to get infected/injected/infested/vaccinated with, and before starting a nuclear or economic war or some' like that?

A simple question, yes or no.
 
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If Venus is habitable, humanly livable, hospitable..

No.

can we make it there before an effective enough COVID-19 vaccine that @ least 50% of the world population (7.8) billion trust to get infected/injected/infested/vaccinated with?

No.

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Ignoring the fact we don't have a craft suitable for the journey - several years development and test...

In addition to the travel time to Venus (about 3 months minimum), you need to wait for a opportune time to launch - the Launch Window

http://clowder.net/hop/railroad/EV.htm

The very next window - leave and arrive dates:

5/16/2023 --- 10/10/2023

There's one next month but we definitely aren't prepared.
 

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Will the surface kill us too?

" The temperature at the surface is 740 K (467 °C, 872 °F), and the pressure is 93 bar (9.3 MPa), roughly the pressure found 900 m (3,000 ft) underwater on Earth. "
 

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" The temperature at the surface is 740 K (467 °C, 872 °F), and the pressure is 93 bar (9.3 MPa), roughly the pressure found 900 m (3,000 ft) underwater on Earth. "
And it's raining sulphuric acid.
 

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And it's raining sulphuric acid.

Much more suitable for our survival and fire suppression is Earth's dihydrogen monoxide rain.
 

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That solves the equation.


Are we doomed?

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Ignoring the fact we don't have a craft suitable for the journey - several years development and test...

In addition to the travel time to Venus (about 3 months minimum), you need to wait for a opportune time to launch - the Launch Window

http://clowder.net/hop/railroad/EV.htm

The very next window - leave and arrive dates:

5/16/2023 --- 10/10/2023

Ray, you are very up-to-date with the latest...excellent.

There's one next month but we definitely aren't prepared.

There are many other things too that we aren't prepared for ... today, almost every day, @ the start of 2020, in 47 days ...
 

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" The temperature at the surface is 740 K (467 °C, 872 °F), and the pressure is 93 bar (9.3 MPa), roughly the pressure found 900 m (3,000 ft) underwater on Earth. "

Can they check say Mars instead of Venus? ...Like Elon Musk is doing.
But I would rather make Earth more hospitable because it's a beautiful blue planet.
It's just that we have a very nasty bug running free right now ... and too much CO2 in our atmosphere.
 

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Can they check say Mars instead of Venus?

Mars is the opposite of Venus.

Too low pressure and generally low temperature. And no magnetosphere to deflect the nasties from the Sun and other regions of the cosmos.
 

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We can always match charge-out rates, but you likely do not want to do that.

Nor does it have anything to do with this topic.
 

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On the Earth, phosphine is a colorless and highly toxic gas that is produced by microorganisms that do not need oxygen to function. So I just wonder why the scientists decided to look for it in the planets.
 

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On the Earth, phosphine is a colorless and highly toxic gas that is produced by microorganisms that do not need oxygen to function. So I just wonder why the scientists decided to look for it in the planets.

What would you look for?
 

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Wake me up when i.) we have come to an agreement on what >life< is, and ii) >actual< life is found.
 
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