Venusian Alien! They're crazy?

[Felipi1205]

I was searching about venus and I saw that:
http://scottcwaring.blogspot.com/2012/01/life-spotted-on-venus-says-russian.html

Life spotted on Venus Says Russian scientist, Jan 22, 2011.

They're crazy! They noticed the protection of an instrument of the Venera spacecraft, it was jettisoned after the landing, and because of this difference between the first and the second picture, they're saying that it's an alien on the surface! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!

What you think?

 

[N_Molson]

That they're crazy.

 

[Mattyv]

If you notice in the second picture, the position that the "alien" was in is now occupied by the deploy-able arm. Could it be that when the arm fell down it simply pushed the rock to the side....

Guess not! Wonder if this guy belongs to that site....:lol:

Edit:

It's not a rock: it just looks like part of the spacecraft that fell off.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Maybe they are pushing ahead a valid reason to make and send another Venus lander?

 

[Jarvitä]

If anything macroscopic can survive on the surface of Venus, I wouldn't feel very comfortable living this close to it.

 

[Felipi1205]

Maybe they are pushing ahead a valid reason to make and send another Venus lander?

So they don't know about the Vega Mission?

 

[orbekler]

Not only crazy, bad observers too: the two pictures are from different points of view, just see the basalt structure.
Unless basalt itself is an alive moving creature.

 

[Artlav]

I'm more surprised that there are more than one picture from that probe.
Where is the rest of the "video feed"?

 

[Rtyh-12]

I knew it! The're coming! Apollo 11 didn't go to the Moon ('everybody' knows it was actually a conspiracy!) but instead to Venus, made contact, and asked them to kill us aaaalllll.

In all seriousness, though, it would be more surprising if things like this didn't pop in once in a while. People are really stupid sometimes, and, if it's on the internet, it seems to happen even more.

 

[T.Neo]

All I see are rocks and a lens cap. :shrug:

If anything macroscopic can survive on the surface of Venus, I wouldn't feel very comfortable living this close to it.

Oh for crying out loud, why? Because its existence places the mythical "great filter" in our future and magically asserts our status as doomed? Even though an innumerable number of evolutionary "filters" exists between the likely state of any such hypothetical organisms and ourselves? Even though the entire premise of the great filter itself is based on a number of assumptions that are varyingly dubious?

I would not fear the existence of such organisms any more than I fear the existence of stromatolites. Perhaps because my views on alien life are more ambivalent than yours.

That said, their existence is pretty doubtful, since they would require some bizarre alternate biochemistry to survive in that environment.

 

[SiberianTiger]

I'm more surprised that there are more than one picture from that probe.
Where is the rest of the "video feed"?

A good collection if Venusian imagery is here: http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

Which probe does have more than one frame?

 

[fsci123]

I knew it! The're coming! Apollo 11 didn't go to the Moon ('everybody' knows it was actually a conspiracy!) but instead to Venus, made contact, and asked them to kill us aaaalllll.

In all seriousness, though, it would be more surprising if things like this didn't pop in once in a while. People are really stupid sometimes, and, if it's on the internet, it seems to happen even more.

Sounds like my neigbour dan.

 

[Artlav]

A good collection if Venusian imagery is here: http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

Which probe does have more than one frame?

Exactly, and even that site says that the camera on V13 and V14 was making panoramas repeatedly for two hours, but only lists one image per camera.

Where can i get the rest of them?

 

[Kyle]

My god its full of.. rocks!

 

[n72.75]

At least it's not the lens cap like Венера-14.

 

[N_Molson]

Those probes were nice achievements. Being able to survive in that hell more than 1 hour, take pics and transmit them back, that was a nice feat, especially because they thrown those Probes into the unknown. It took a lot of attemps to succeed though, if I remember well.

 

[T.Neo]

Just look at these Venera pictures, straightened out to get a better view:

What a forboding, desolate landscape. One wonders what it'd be like to be able to walk around there for a few hours...

 

[N_Molson]

And the whole is bathed into a ~450°C, acid, dense atmosphere with insane air pressure, and violent gusts of wind.

A nice place for an holiday resort, really :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Well, we have lifeforms on Earth, that survive in similar conditions. But no intelligent ones.

 

[T.Neo]

Well, we have lifeforms on Earth, that survive in similar conditions.

At 460 Celsius? With no water in sight?

Forgive me, but I'm pretty sure I haven't heard of any such organisms living on Earth... :blink: