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Venus is hell, but science is seriously for life in its skies

Researchers float a hypothesis about how microbial life could actually survive in the clouds above the toxic and overheated planet.

[cnet.com]

[scientificamerican.com]

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FearlessFly 9 Sep 14
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There are microbial life forms on Earth that flourish in the harshest environments on the planet.

BDair Level 8 Sep 15, 2020
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I was taught that hell is in the deep bowels of the earth. Microbial life might adapt to survive almost anywhere.

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"Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -Spock

I don't think (in the context of Venus) we have "eliminated the impossible" nor do we know "whatever remains". 😛
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We have tube worms on Earth living in the deep trenches on/near high-sulfur, high-pressure, no oxygen, very hot, slopes of underwater vents

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Life will find a way to survive no matter what the environment.

. . . hmmm, I know of no evidence of that assertion on any celestial body aside from Earth.
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Saw this article on Venus earlier today.

[news.yahoo.com]

. . . yahoo adds nothing, the actual source :

[theconversation.com]
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Venus is Earth's future. One day, the Goldilocks Zone will shrink, and only airborne microbes, in asbestos suits and gas masks, will be able to survive a future Earth's atmosphere.

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we should send trump there, he would thrive in his element " phosphine—a stinky, flammable chemical typically associated with feces, farts and rotting microbial activity—in an atmospheric layer far above the planet’s scorching surface."

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Just saw this on Huffpost!!!!

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Blue Green alga was proposed for seeding the clouds of Venus way back in the 60's maybe as far back as the 50's by Isaac Asimov. He didn't know that a day was over 2 weeks on Venus due to the cloud layer.
He proposed sending a seed probe, then showing up to claim the new Earth in a couple thousand years.

Asimov was a renaissance man and a prolific author. This is my favorite:
[en.wikipedia.org]
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