Just seen on the News that possible signs of life have been detected in the clouds around Venus.
The exciting find is the gas Phosphine, which is potentially a waste product of microbial activity.
The boffins aren't saying that there is life on Venus, just that they've found this curious gas floating above the hostile world.
If they can prove that microbes do exist out there then it'll be simply awe-inspiring and prove at last that we are indeed not alone in the universe.
What do you think readers?
I'd love to believe this, but I suspect it will prove to be an unexpected chemical driven thing, that we can't know of until we (robotic probes) go there and carry out experiments.
ReplyDeleteNASA thought there was evidence of liquid water on the surface of Mars, actually there, present day, a few years ago.
I suspected it was a liquid like movement of very dry Martian dust.
Today NASA think it's more likely a fine dust, martian wind phenomenon.
Sad, but that's how it seems to go.
Mish.
I hope its true too Mish although I doubt those Venutian microbes will be good for us humans! They can stay where they are and we can wave to them.
DeleteIt shows how my mind works, I thought this was a thread on the Mekon's ass-gas!!👽🤓 MJ Southcoast base
ReplyDeleteWhat has Dominic Cummings' farts got to do with this ?
ReplyDeleteMish.
I hadn't seen that, but now it's obvious, anyone read the Dan Dare graphic novel "Dare" ? Not the Mekon behind Mrs Thatcher but Domekon behind Boris Johnson!!! 🤣🤣 -MJ Southcoast base
DeleteHa ha Dare was a great read in the monthly Revolver comic. Put me off yoghurt for good. Isnt Phosgene mustard gas?
ReplyDeleteIt is mustard gas but I spelt it wrong. Its Phosphine, something different. Soz Wote.
DeleteWhat I've always thought, we're alone and on the way out for the same reasons the other 99% of all known species have already gone extinct, life isn't permanent, it's a grand experiment in nature, which must constantly evolve or die, we ceased to evolve by inventing maths, letters and farming, therefor we will have to die, to make room for the next lot! If it hadn't been for a meteor, we'd still be mice eating dinosaur eggs, as mice-like things may be doing all over the universe, but they aren't watching telly or firing rockets! The Venusian thing could be a form of life, but like a chemical soup and in a hostile environment, destined to keep evolving or re-evolving only into similar bio-chemical 'compounds' floating in the super-heated, acid rain clouds. Depressing - but you asked! There's probably a 'primordial soup' on Europa too, but locked in by ice, it too will only be a few bio-chemical atoms away from stagnant mud!
ReplyDeleteHmm, that's good primordial realism right there Hugh. Although I ought to succumb to its microbial tidiness I still find myself gliding through Europa's alien seas brimming with creatures as I peer out of my chrome moonship smiling!
DeleteYeah! But the big stuff here came from the land, and Europa doen't even have regular count-on'able ice-holes!
DeleteAnd yes - cynical, pragmatic realist, that's me - boring!
H