Clouds of Venus 'simply too dry' to support life

[Notebook]

Clouds of Venus 'simply too dry' to support life

Conditions in Venus's atmosphere are beyond what the hardiest terrestrial lifeforms can cope with.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[MaxBuzz]

there can be no talk of any life on Venus, it's even funny to talk about it ? can diverge ?

 

[N_Molson]

Yeah, seems very unlikely...

 

[Pioneer]

As always, the overblown hype in the original story was... overblown.

 

[N_Molson]

Let's face it, finding life in the solar system elsewhere than on Earth will be difficult at best.

Mercury : not an option
Venus : hellish
Earth : perfect
Moon : maybe some very tough bacteriaes from space probes contamination.
Mars : maybe in the past, fossiles could be a thing. Nowadays ? Unlikely : no magnetosphere, real cold. Still best candidate for me.
Europa : very cold, probably water but no light under the ice. We need to know more : how much heat the core can generate, do tidal forces generate a lot of friction...
Titan : very very cold, sunlight extremely dim. Methane-based chemistry. More than unlikely.

Now of course heavier-than-air flying was unlikely in the 19th century. We have to keep searching (which involves funding science) and hope to have nice surprises, else build some certainty that we're alone there.

 

[MaxBuzz]

even on earth, the spread of life is very extensive organisms live 11 kilometers under water 5 kilometers underground the first organisms appeared when there was no water on the earth and the earth was an acid hell they lived when the planet was a snowball, when another planet crashed into the earth....
Teranosaurs don't feel bad 5,000 years after the fall of the asteroid

 

[4throck]

Earth life has evolved based on the conditions here. You won't find it elsewhere.
So these types of studies don't offer anything new.

You need to look for something different on other planets, like unexplained chemical processes.
On Mars that requires drilling and analyzing the water. Just collecting surface rocks (that are completely sterilized by UVs) won't tell you anything about current biology.