Venus may have hosted life, researchers say

[rangerrebew]

News Space 03 April 2018
Venus may have hosted life, researchers say
Today it’s an inferno, but scientists suggest billions of years ago the planet was cool enough to have liquid water. Richard A Lovett reports.
 
 

The planet Venus may once have been hospitable to life, scientists say — possibly even more so than the early Earth.

Furthermore, this may have occurred even though Venus never had plate tectonics, the process by which the Earth constantly recycles its crust by bringing fresh material to the surface via volcanoes, while subducting old rock back into the interior in places such as deep-sea trenches. It’s a process that produces damaging earthquakes and volcanoes, but also helps buffer our atmosphere’s level of carbon dioxide, thereby keeping our surface temperature in the right range for liquid water.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/venus-may-have-hosted-life-researchers-say

[Restored]

I suppose I will get blamed for this as well.

[dfwgator]

And then again, maybe not.

[Joe Wooten]

I'd bet that if Venus once had oceans, then it had plate tectonics too, as water is a good lubricant. Once the oceans were evaporated off, plate movement stopped.

[Gefn]

Here's your Venusian

@Suppressed

[Suppressed]

Here's your Venusian

@Freya

Great episode, and one of the several set in Central New York, where Rod Serling was from.  (Cayuga bus line)

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

Here's your Venusian

@Suppressed

Beneath his hat the strangeness lies...

[240B]

Obviously, without a doubt...it's the protomolecule.