Venus Could Harbour Non-Water Based Life
Recent studies and research have suggested that Venus, often referred to as Earth’s sister planet, could potentially harbour non-water based life forms. This has opened up new possibilities for the search for extraterrestrial life beyond our own planet.
The surface of Venus is an inhospitable environment, with temperatures reaching up to 900 degrees Fahrenheit and an atmosphere consisting mainly of carbon dioxide. This has led scientists to believe that life as we know it could not survive on Venus. However, a recent study published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters has proposed the idea that Venus’s clouds, which are made up of sulfuric acid, could potentially support microbial life that does not rely on water.
The research team, led by Dr. Clara Sousa-Silva of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used computer models to simulate the conditions of Venus’s atmosphere and found that certain microbes could potentially survive in the acidic clouds. This groundbreaking discovery has opened up new possibilities for astrobiologists who have long focused their search for extraterrestrial life on planets with water-based ecosystems.
While the idea of non-water based life may seem unconventional, it is not entirely out of the realm of possibility. Life on Earth has shown remarkable adaptability, with organisms thriving in extreme environments such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents and acidic hot springs. This has led scientists to consider the possibility of life existing in environments that were previously thought to be uninhabitable.
As the search for extraterrestrial life continues, the discovery of potential non-water based life on Venus has opened up new avenues for exploration. The proposed DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions, which are set to launch to Venus in the coming years, will provide further insight into the planet’s atmosphere and surface, potentially revealing new clues about the possibility of life beyond Earth.
While the presence of non-water based life on Venus is still speculative, the discovery has sparked renewed interest in the search for extraterrestrial life and has brought us one step closer to answering the age-old question: are we alone in the universe?
Known Unknowns vs Unknown Unknowns anyone!?
Lets just imagine that we found some kind of Lichens stuck to the side of rocks on Mars or Venus; it would be a big deal right? I mean we spent enormous time and money looking. So what happens then?
We can all see what humanity hoped to find by watching or reading any number of science fiction stories and yet reality is so far removed from that. Are we over reacting to the disappointment of not having a war with martians or friends like Mork?
Life is a self-replicating process of keeping low entropy compared to its surrounding. In this sense even viruses are alive in the sense, that they temporary acquire ability to replicate using host cell's genetic machinery to create copies that keep entropy of the virus low.
Every process that has those characteristics of keeping its own entropy low and being able to replicate in time is an actual living thing.
I believe in life predicated on
the sour cream donut.
Water is necessary for life. The geometry of the water molecule is the only euclidean geometry that forms self similar fractal formation. This is why life is capable of forming endless shapes & function & Its the only thing that joins spirit & matter together. All life will use water
I was one of those asking about life as we don't know it. Thanks! Great interview!!
you realize though that, looking for life as we don´t know it is a completely meaningless statement?
Great interview. I love the image of life going shopping for aminoacids.
Would silicon-based life be more stable at hight temperatures? Energy might not be such a problem if there's plenty of it around.
Is life present everywhere where we find water? I think I've read that water is found 100s of km below the earth's surface, & life only 10s.
I'd define life as having three properties: 0: Maintain low entropy within the system through interactions with the environment (i.e. metabolism), 1. Replicate, 2: Process information about how to do 0 and 1.
Something like that. My point being that the definition doesn't need to be overly biased by "as we know it".
That being said, it is possible to argue the hypothesis that life is gonna be carbon and water based, without that argument being unimaginative or thinking inside the box.
A simple definition in terms of entropy allows for a pretty broad range. I mean, who knows what's going on in stellar plasma, etc. But if you constrain the search to chemistry, you've got a very finite set of ingredients, of which carbon happens to be the only viable candidate for both structure and flexibility necessary for life. We can enumerate the short list of alternatives, and it's fairly trivial to rule those alternatives out. There could be some debate about alternative solvents, but that's a finite list too, and water is hard to beat.
Plank life…..virus bacteria cells atoms rocks its all life if it has a process whats plank life then the first things that could b a starting point and things defined as fundamentals
OMG life on planet with acid air and 2,000 mph winds and pressure 10 x that of sea. Really far fetched and in the realms of sci-fi more than reality. We MAY find living cells or organism on the planet but if we can call it life is not known or possible.
Hi Fraser! Question: we can measure our velocity relative to earth, the moon, the Sun the Milky Way etc. What is the biggest 'thing' we can measure our velocity relative to and do we know what velocity we are at if sitting in a chair on Earth?
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2 eyes should be expected. When you are talking about evolution metabolism is one of the most important factors. What is the minimum needed to get the job done? For stereoscopic vision that is 2 photoreceptor organs separated by a distance. It is physics. 2 eyes is almost certainly common in the universe.
So there’s a chemical that we use on earth as an extremely potent solvent all the time. It’s super critical carbon dioxide. Venus is covered in super critical carbon dioxide. Why couldn’t life use a solvent that’s in the super critical fluid phase? It has a density very similar to liquids and retains the ability to dissolve things.
Did they try passing electric charges or something analogous to lightning through the sulfuric acid with base pairs dissolved in the sulfuric acid?
look up la orejona the female that came in her spaceship from Jupiter to lake Titicaca in Peru mating with a taper like animal.
he looks like every Star Trek character at once
Sulfuric acid as a solvent. Is this where xenomorphs come from?
The entire planet could be a lifeform LIFE FORM