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> Might be worth just dropping some hardy lichen on Venus to get the process started, because no one is going to go there as-is. Hardy is an understatement. Li
by at_compile_time 5y ago
> Might be worth just dropping some hardy lichen on Venus to get the process started, because no one is going to go there as-is.
Hardy is an understatement. Life would need an entirely different chemistry to function at 730K.
- DuskStar 5y agoPresumsbly, you'd start in the upper atmosphere and work down. Airborne equivalents to algae?
- webnrrd2k 5y agoMaybe something similar to what lives at undersea hydrothermal vents? I know close to nothing about extremophiles, but I imagine that there is something, somewhere on earth, that's used to living in an environment that is closer to Venus's environment.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoIt's one thing to live near hydrothermal vents, and other to live inside them. IIRC no known creature survives above 120 Celsius.