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Re:Soviet Venus Images (2004) by at_compile_time on Sunday July 04, 2021 @02:51PM (#27731765)
> Might be worth just dropping some hardy lichen on Venus to get the process started, because no one is going to go there as-is.

Hardy is an understatement. Life would need an entirely different chemistry to function at 730K.

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Re:Soviet Venus Images (2004) by webnrrd2k on Sunday July 04, 2021 @11:15PM (#27734342)
Maybe something similar to what lives at undersea hydrothermal vents?

I know close to nothing about extremophiles, but I imagine that there is something, somewhere on earth, that's used to living in an environment that is closer to Venus's environment.

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Re:Soviet Venus Images (2004) by ASalazarMX on Monday July 05, 2021 @02:26PM (#27740595)
It's one thing to live near hydrothermal vents, and other to live inside them. IIRC no known creature survives above 120 Celsius.
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Re:Soviet Venus Images (2004) by DuskStar on Sunday July 04, 2021 @04:31PM (#27732376)
Presumsbly, you'd start in the upper atmosphere and work down. Airborne equivalents to algae?
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