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News Briefs 11-08-2008

No gnews is not good gnews…

Quote of the Day:

“The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do…”

Walter Bagehot

  1. Microbial Life on Venus
    [quote][Chandra] Wickramasinghe, writing with co-author Janaki Wickramasinghe in the June 2008 issue of the journal Astrophysics and Space Science, further suggests that [Venusian] microbes could potentially be transferred from Venus to Earth by the solar wind, the stream of charged particles that is continuously ejected from the sun. This stream is known to sometimes carry charged particles, called ions, from Venus’ upper atmosphere off the planet, though no one has ever suggested it could carry heavier dust particles or microbes.

    “We point out that Venus and Earth are very close in terms of proximity,” Chandra Wickramasinghe told SPACE.com. “There are occasions where Venus and Earth are aligned, which would be the best possible time for any exchange of material from Venus to Earth.”

    The last such alignment took place in 2004 and the next will happen in 2012, he said. [emphasis mine][/quote]

    Yay! Yet another potential 2012 rumour thrown into the pot.

    And of course, the planet Venus was the symbol of the god Quetzalcoatl/Kukulcán in mesoamerican cultures, so I think it’s more than fitting 😉

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

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