Comments on: New analysis: It wasn’t even phosphine detected at Venus https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-analysis-it-wasnt-even-phosphine-detected-at-venus/ Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:20:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-analysis-it-wasnt-even-phosphine-detected-at-venus/#comment-1107915 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:20:31 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72738#comment-1107915 If we do find life of any kind someplace else in the solar system what exactly will happen?

Will they close off the planet to any physical research just in case we contaminate it?

Will they try to take samples and risk contaminating the Earth with them or us contaminating them while we catch them?

I am for not caring and just letting nature take its course. Survival of the fittest.

]]> By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-analysis-it-wasnt-even-phosphine-detected-at-venus/#comment-1107322 Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:50:15 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72738#comment-1107322 Fortunately, BepiColombo will be doing a much closer flyby of Venus for a gravity assist later this year, and we should have a shot at some better data from its spectrometer out of that.

I don’t think there is, or ever was, life on Venus, but I do think we’ve spent too little time studying our closest neighbor up close, so I do hope that NASA selects one of the Venus mission proposals (DAVINCI+ or VERITAS) for the final Discovery 15/16 program downselect this summer, not least so that we can better understand how these false readings can happen. That in turn could improve our ability to detect where it actually does exist on other worlds..

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