NASA mission to Venus in 1978 may have detected phosphine, a gas related to life

Re:NASA mission to Venus in 1978 may have detected phosphine... by graderjs on Sunday March 28, 2021 @11:40AM (#26611242)

If you're going to Mars you may as well live underground to avoid the asteroids, dust and radiation.

What if Venus already has sentient life? Either pre technosignatures or too sophisticated to advertise their presence to the tribe of nuclear monkeys across the pond.

We can't just go waltzing in there and "terraform" something that isn't ours. We'd had to work it out first with whoever's there.

On the cloud city sustenance point isn't there ample mining to be had? Like Lando

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Re:NASA mission to Venus in 1978 may have detected phosphine... by cgriswald on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:14PM (#26611515)

There’s nothing to mine. The atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide with a little nitrogen. Everything else is in insufficient quantities to make it worthwhile probably ever.

Cloud City worked because they mined a magical gas called tibanna that generated no magnetic field, no radiation, was denser than air, and dissipated heat so well there was no turbulence.

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