Posted on 09/19/2020 8:56:15 AM PDT by MAGA2017
Venus Is a Russian Planet ... Says Russia
Just because you get there first, that doesn't mean you own it.
Russia has some strong feelings about the planet Venus. Dmitry Rogozin, the chief of Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, spoke at the 2020 HeliRussia exhibition and declared that Venus is a "Russian planet," according to the Russian news agency TASS. (It's not.)
This comes after the groundbreaking announcement on Monday that researchers have spotted potential evidence of life high in the clouds of Venus. The scientists found chemical signatures of a molecule called phosphine, which is only produced by living things or in places where there's high heat and pressure. Since Venus isn't subjected to high heat or high pressure, life might have just found a way.
Scientists have long suspected the caustic clouds coating Venus could harbor life. Unlike the stiflingly hot surface of the planet, its cloud decks are home to relatively Earth-like conditions, with temperatures hovering around 86 degrees Fahrenheit and pressures similar to what we feel at Earth's surface.
Between 1967 and 1984, the Soviet Union sent a number of probes to explore Venus. Most missions were unsuccessful, but several of these spacecraft returned important data about the planet. Venera 7, for instance, was the first probe to successfully land on Venus's surface. (It died shortly after.) Venera 9, which launched in 1976, snapped the first images of the dusty, desolate planet. The final Venera missions, 15 and 16, focused on mapping portions of the planet's surface.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
pretty much useless to humans.
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There was a proposal that Venus is more habitable than Mars, if you build floating cities in the right band at the right height
Hey, Ruskis! See the bolded bullet. YOUR country signed this.
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Like a lot of other stuff they signed - they don’t care, since it was a political move for them, not a binding absolute
To heck with elections, the Russians are now exerting planetary influence.
Then we get Mars.
Yeah...uh...*snork*...Nope.
Nothing against you, of course.
Send Wesley Clark there to stop them.
You are ceding the iCloud to the Russians?
We should stake a claim on Mercury sometime though, a movable mining outpost on the dark side could yield elements you can’t find anywhere except by being close to the Sun. Apparently there is even ice Water on Mercury.
Another Popular Mechanics scoop. Who owns the magazine, Marvel comics?
Yeah, but it is a dry heat.
Men are from Mars, Russians are from Venus, and liberals are from Uranus.
868 F is a bit “stiflingly hot” ...
Yeah, but it is a dry heat.
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Well, goood luck doing anything with it.
Elements? I presume you mean trans-uranium elements?
Mars? ‘Mer’ca!!!
This reminds me of a statement the Russians made when I was a kid, something like ‘We invented Bezball’.
In Russia, treaties sign YOU!
We need pics. :)
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