UM-Bot Posted April 1, 2018 #1 Share Posted April 1, 2018 A new paper has put forward the suggestion that the clouds of Venus could be a habitat for microbial life. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/316883/could-there-be-life-in-the-clouds-of-venus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_mc Posted April 1, 2018 #2 Share Posted April 1, 2018 It's not a new theory. It has been theorized for years that there may be life in the clouds of Venus. Anyway, it is a quite interesting theory I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodwose Posted April 1, 2018 #3 Share Posted April 1, 2018 *Hypothesis, and you're right it's been suggested before. It would be very interesting as to how the life got there, maybe forming in the same way as on earth when Venus was younger and more temperate then being gradually forced higher and higher into the atmosphere as the planet became inhospitable. Would be fascinating either way, imagine some photo synthetic -or Chemosynthetic- plant/animal floating around in the clouds like a dandelion seed... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted April 2, 2018 #4 Share Posted April 2, 2018 For our "sister" planet, Venus is quite inhospitable. Hopefully there is only bacteria in the clouds and not something like the creature in the old Outer Limits with Bill Shatner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon the frog Posted April 5, 2018 #5 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Not a lot of data on Venus... Russia got some picture of the surface but not more. Life in cloud maybe but life in the soil ? Bacteria were found miles down in earth crust, why not there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted April 5, 2018 #6 Share Posted April 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Jon the frog said: Why not there? Because the surface of Venus is hot enough to melt tin and lead. Bacteria simply can not exist at those temperatures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon the frog Posted April 5, 2018 #7 Share Posted April 5, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, Waspie_Dwarf said: Because the surface of Venus is hot enough to melt tin and lead. Bacteria simply can not exist at those temperatures. Don't know if it was always like that....there was some water a while ago before it was boiled from the surface. Do you think 5 miles deep it's the same ? Some bacteria lives deep here in the earth crust, If there was life On Venus or Mars maybe some still there deep in the rock. https://www.astrobio.net/extreme-life/life-might-thrive-dozen-miles-beneath-earths-surface/ https://www.livescience.com/29857-microbes-discovered-in-earths-crust.html Edited April 5, 2018 by Jon the frog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiXilver Posted April 6, 2018 #8 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Perhaps a cousin of the tardigrade could survive in those clouds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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