Prospects for
Venusian life have been dismissed because of harsh conditions on the planet's surface: there is no water, temperatures reach 477 °C and the atmospheric pressure is 92 times that on Earth's surface.
Not exact matches
Regarding the search for extraterrestrial
life, the one major habitable zone in the inner solar system that has not been sampled at all is the
Venusian cloud layer, which in terms of temperature, pressure and gravity is the most Earthlike extraterrestrial environment in the solar system.
Detection of tremolite, a mineral created in the presence of water, could be used to ascertain how long any
Venusian oceans lasted as a habitat for Earth - type
life over the past 4.6 billion years of planetary history (more).
Two Chicago residents
living in different parts of the Windy City awaken one morning to discover that legions of
Venusian robots have destroyed most of the city.
Since
Venusian settlers colonized Terra long before El was born, she has only ever known
life under their control.
Re # 7, while permanent
venusian - style runaway warming is not possible now (until the sun becomes a lot hotter in billions of years), we could go into (what scientists have told me) is hysteresis, a really great warming for even up to 100,000 or 200,000 years, in which a lot of
life dies out, before the world cools back down again.
It turned out that the
Venusians were highly advanced in bioscience (as one of the explorers put it, «they have forgotten more about organic chemistry and genetics than we'll ever know») and had biotechnology «indistinguishable from magic» — all of their «technology» consisted of
living organisms, or materials produced by
living organisms.