2ManyBoxes
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The Sky At Night program last night was about the discovery of phosphene in the high atmosphere of Venus. They say that they currently can't think of a way that the gas could be produced other than by living organisms in the amounts that they're seeing.
Venus is a hell planet at the surface because of high temperatures and pressure and sulphuric acid instead of water falling as rain.
What got me about the program was the obvious only just suppressed excitement of everyone. The presenter's eyes seemed to be popping out of his head. Of the 4 scientists involved one was a jolly, giggly woman, another a drop dead gorgeous woman who had died her hair blue and was wearing blue lipstick, the third kept breaking out into song accompanied by his very skilful guitar playing and the last was the most normal, but he was obviously suppressing himself from jumping up and down like a 4 year old. Giddy wasn't in it.
They were even talking about a mission to Venus to scoop up some of the atmosphere.
If you go to the BBC website and search for 'Life on Venus' it'll come up as a YouTube video.
Hopefully it won't get immediately debunked by some clever chemist but they did seem to have done a lot of checking themselves. I'm surprised that it hasn't created more of a stir.
Venus is a hell planet at the surface because of high temperatures and pressure and sulphuric acid instead of water falling as rain.
What got me about the program was the obvious only just suppressed excitement of everyone. The presenter's eyes seemed to be popping out of his head. Of the 4 scientists involved one was a jolly, giggly woman, another a drop dead gorgeous woman who had died her hair blue and was wearing blue lipstick, the third kept breaking out into song accompanied by his very skilful guitar playing and the last was the most normal, but he was obviously suppressing himself from jumping up and down like a 4 year old. Giddy wasn't in it.
They were even talking about a mission to Venus to scoop up some of the atmosphere.
If you go to the BBC website and search for 'Life on Venus' it'll come up as a YouTube video.
Hopefully it won't get immediately debunked by some clever chemist but they did seem to have done a lot of checking themselves. I'm surprised that it hasn't created more of a stir.
