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NASA just scored a badly needed win: The best potential evidence of alien life yet (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mars obviously ain't worth shit, we have a lot of other planets to investigate and we are over here looking for artifacts and fossils

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's the most earth-like planet in our solar system. So we're naturally interested in it...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Venus is the most Earth-like. Well, besides Earth itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd say not at all. Venus has an atmosphere 92 times denser than ours filled with sulphuric acid, its average temperature is hot enough to melt lead (455°C/850°F), probes sent there never lasted more than two hours before being completely destroyed, and it for some reason rotates backwards compared to other planets.

Mars doesn't have any of these issues and mostly resembles a cold desert with a very thin atmosphere, so it's far similar to Earth than Venus is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying Venus would be easier to colonise than Mars, but just the fact that it has a dense atmosphere while Mars barely has any should tell you it's much more Earth-like. Size and gravity is also significantly closer to Earth than for Mars which is relatively tiny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Fair enough! That's a good point.