It's not that I'd seriously expect to be meeting ET and discovering the secrets of the universe here, but I'm most interested to see - assuming something is eventually found - how it is biochemically. It's unlikely that it's going to be bacteria as we know it, because that's a specific thing that's evolved on Earth; would whatever it is even use DNA? Be carbon-based? If not, it'd mean all the kinds of alternate possible bases of life would be more than just speculative, but if it is exactly like life on Earth, that'd suggest there might be only one way that life could ever form. Which wouldn't be so good for the many sci-fi creators who dream up all intelligent shades of the colour blue and such!
If there was more advanced life once and there are only specks of it left left in the Venusian clouds, I'd see those like the cockroaches-surviving-the-apocalypse scenario; not so much adaptation through drastic devolution, but just only the hardiest extremophiles were able to survive. That'd be sad, especially if it'd be a hint at what could happen to us if humanity keeps on the path it's on. Maybe life on Mars will flourish in billions of years, and they'll look up at the pair of hellish planets between them and the sun and dismiss them for eons in their own search for life because of how completely inhospitable they obviously are.
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Im really curious to how life evolved on Venus. Like have they been that way for a long time or has the conditions been right for life form recently?
The biochemistry would be very interesting since even on earth there js some weird stuff that evolved. For example Octopuses have copper in their circulatory system so their blood is blue, un like the iron based blood we have. (I studied marine biology I know what I am talking about. Octopi came about because there was some form of language upheaval and then they reverted it back to Octopuses currently because Octopi doesnt translate from the correct Latin root.) And for spiders they have trasparent blood.
Seeing how weird Earth has it, I realky want to know just how weird Venus's life can get.
I do put bets that if they are atmonspheric then they'll probably have an enzyme that can repair their genetic coding . like the Earth's equivelent atmonspheric bacteria and their enzyme telomerase.
If there was more advanced life once and there are only specks of it left left in the Venusian clouds, I'd see those like the cockroaches-surviving-the-apocalypse scenario; not so much adaptation through drastic devolution, but just only the hardiest extremophiles were able to survive. That'd be sad, especially if it'd be a hint at what could happen to us if humanity keeps on the path it's on. Maybe life on Mars will flourish in billions of years, and they'll look up at the pair of hellish planets between them and the sun and dismiss them for eons in their own search for life because of how completely inhospitable they obviously are.
The biochemistry would be very interesting since even on earth there js some weird stuff that evolved. For example Octopuses have copper in their circulatory system so their blood is blue, un like the iron based blood we have. (I studied marine biology I know what I am talking about. Octopi came about because there was some form of language upheaval and then they reverted it back to Octopuses currently because Octopi doesnt translate from the correct Latin root.) And for spiders they have trasparent blood.
Seeing how weird Earth has it, I realky want to know just how weird Venus's life can get.
I do put bets that if they are atmonspheric then they'll probably have an enzyme that can repair their genetic coding . like the Earth's equivelent atmonspheric bacteria and their enzyme telomerase.