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Double vortex at Venus South Pole unveiled!
European Space Agency ^
| 27 June 2006
Posted on 07/02/2006 12:25:19 AM PDT by A. Pole
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posted on
07/02/2006 12:25:25 AM PDT
by
A. Pole
To: A. Pole
That's what my stomach feels like tonight.
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posted on
07/02/2006 12:27:53 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: A. Pole
It's a quantum singularity, so all we need do is fire a beam of neutrinos into it and PRESTO! It will a. carry us back in time, or b. stop the expansion of the hole in spacetime c. whatever else the writer needs to happen...
Oh, sorry, got lost in the terminology...
Seems Mars has always stolen the thunder from Venus in the cultural imagination, because you can SEE the surface. People just assume Venus is always cloudy and thus there's no oppportunity for theories about lost civilizations.
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/02/2006 12:30:20 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: Darkwolf377
Anything lost on Venus is likely to stay lost for a long time.
8^)
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posted on
07/02/2006 12:41:16 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: A. Pole
So that's where Klingons come from!
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posted on
07/02/2006 12:49:36 AM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/02/2006 12:50:35 AM PDT
by
raygun
To: BenLurkin
I thought it was Kermit the Frog, floating in a keg.
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posted on
07/02/2006 1:04:35 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
("We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest." Þ)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
>"So that's where Klingons come from!"I always thought Klingons hung around Uranus...
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posted on
07/02/2006 2:20:04 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl!)
To: A. Pole
"they may be due to the presence of dust and aerosols in the atmosphere"Venution hair spray caused global warming.
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posted on
07/02/2006 2:55:05 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Darkwolf377
"Seems Mars has always stolen the thunder from Venus in the cultural imagination"I've always thought Venus was a better candidate for terraforming because of the thick atmosphere. If we could engineer some microbes and plants to start trapping toxic substances in the atmosphere, we could start making changes that could eventually result in the planet being habitable.
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posted on
07/02/2006 3:00:00 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
That's a good point---more to work with.
Let's call Dr. Gregory Benford and see if he can get this going...
To: Darkwolf377
Let's call Dr. Gregory Benford and see if he can get this going...I'm serious. Take some of the bacteria that grows in sulfur vents and gets it's energy from sulfur instead of sunlight. Genetically alter it until you have several strands that can tolerate a variety of PH conditions including some extreme ones. And then fire a collection of them onto Venus. And see what happens.
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posted on
07/02/2006 3:29:29 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
And then fire a collection of them onto Venus. And see what happens.The first thing that would happen is that the Greens would throw a hissy-fit over violation of international treaties about contaminating planets with Earth life.
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posted on
07/02/2006 3:38:38 AM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
(My book is out. Read excerpts at www.thejusticecooperative.com)
To: DannyTN
Hmmm. That was my 1st guess. Global warming.
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posted on
07/02/2006 3:42:46 AM PDT
by
chemicalman
(Al Gore invented global warming.)
To: JoeFromSidney
"The first thing that would happen is that the Greens would throw a hissy-fit over violation of international treaties about contaminating planets with Earth life."Someone would. But I think most people would be in favor of it.
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posted on
07/02/2006 3:49:20 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
I'm serious, too, actually. Benford could be the new Carl Sagan if he had the desire.
To: A. Pole
Looks like somebody dialed the Venusian Stargate to P3W-451. Too bad for Venus!
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posted on
07/02/2006 4:03:57 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up two (2) seats in the Senate and four (4) seats in the House in 2006)
To: Darkwolf377
Seems Mars has always stolen the thunder from Venus in the cultural imagination, because you can SEE the surface. People just assume Venus is always cloudy and thus there's no oppportunity for theories about lost civilizations.
There's also this small matter of Venus having an avg surface temp of roughly 400 deg celcius! I really doubt ANY civilization could've taken rot there, ever. Mars on the other hand, was once warmer and had water and a half-decent atmospheric covering. My vote is for mars to be further explored for signs of past life.
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posted on
07/02/2006 4:12:35 AM PDT
by
voletti
(Awareness and Equanimity.)
To: A. Pole
Thanks. I'll change my travel plans.
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