from DailyCaller Website
The Indo-Asian News Service
reported Saturday that a Russian
scientist has published what he claims is evidence of life on Venus,
Earth's nearest neighbor in the direction of the sun.
With an atmospheric pressure
92 times Earth's, a waterless and volcano-riddled surface and a
surface temperature of 894°C, the planet has never been
considered a serious target of research into the possibility of
extraterrestrial life.
Other research has suggested that liquid
water may have once covered Venus, but the scientific consensus
suggests that there have been no oceans there for at least 2 billion
years.
Scientists working on that project have not reported similar findings, but they also have not ruled out the possibility that life - albeit microscopic - could still lurk there beneath the clouds.
The project is largely dedicated to
analyzing what its leaders describe as a "greenhouse effect"-related
eco-catastrophe that once converted Venus into an uninhabitable
wasteland.
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