I mean sulfur is an important component of life and extremeophiles can handle many conditions. When I heard things about possible life at venus it was generally the idea of microorganisms floating in the atmosphere.
Earth was very inhospitable for life for quite some time. In the future, it could become barren again. What’s to say that Venus wasn’t once harboring life? We don’t know anywhere near enough of its geology to even guess that.
Well duh. It’s a hell of acid storms and sulfur, how would it have had life?
I mean sulfur is an important component of life and extremeophiles can handle many conditions. When I heard things about possible life at venus it was generally the idea of microorganisms floating in the atmosphere.
I’m not meaning to sound sarcastic or like I’m taking the piss, but how do we know there are no life forms that like acid storms and sulphur?
This headline says earth-like life. I just didn’t repeat the word.
there’s a bunch of life around the deep sea volcanoes that lives off sulphur and stuff, so technically it’d still be earth-like life :)
Fair point there!
Even if it doesn’t have now, it’s quite a leap to say it never had.
Is it? Why?
Earth was very inhospitable for life for quite some time. In the future, it could become barren again. What’s to say that Venus wasn’t once harboring life? We don’t know anywhere near enough of its geology to even guess that.