Well duh. It’s a hell of acid storms and sulfur, how would it have had life?
Even if it doesn’t have now, it’s quite a leap to say it never had.
Is it? Why?
I mean sulfur is an important component of life and extremeophiles can handle many conditions. When I heard things about possible life at venus it was generally the idea of microorganisms floating in the atmosphere.
I’m not meaning to sound sarcastic or like I’m taking the piss, but how do we know there are no life forms that like acid storms and sulphur?
This headline says earth-like life. I just didn’t repeat the word.
there’s a bunch of life around the deep sea volcanoes that lives off sulphur and stuff, so technically it’d still be earth-like life :)
Fair point there!
Well no. By definition it had Venus-like life.
Zoidberg:
-If you call that living.
I can’t say I’m surprised
…But my relief is profound
Not ruling out some stange bacterial life that’s generating phosphene however. Come on space agencies, Venus atmosphere sample mission when?
Earth-like would be, by definition, impossible. Venus-like, that, would be something.
Earth-like is a very broad term. If an organism has something similar to DNA or shared any kind of chemical processes it could be “earth-like”.
As an odd hypothetical example, there is a theory that fungi could potentially spread from planet to planet. Even with a billion or so years of independent evolution, fungi on Venus and fungi on Earth could still share some of the same traits.
Nobody caught the dad joke vibe, I see.
It was overshadowed by the first bit where you said “by definition, impossible”. It kinda boned the delivery, TBH.
Some you win, some you lose.
Some were born to sing the blues
Which is a genre I enjoy very much.
Don’t stop believing
Hold on to that feeling
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