ESA to Send Spacecraft to Venus

teeto writes to tell us The International Herald Tribune is reporting that the European Space Agency is planning to send a spacecraft to peer at Venus." From the article: "If the robot craft pulls off the complex maneuver of slowing down enough to swing into orbit, scientists hope it will help solve the mystery of how the shrouded, churning atmosphere of Venus formed and how it maintains the planet's broiler-like temperatures."

Didn't you hear? It's GLOBAL WARMING

[Anonymous Coward]

Venus once had a thriving civilization, much like Earth, but they burned their fossil fuels and ruined their environment. DON'T BE LIKE VENUS!

Men are from mars, women are from Venus

[ThatGeek]

So let's send them all back!!!

Re:Scary!

[butterwise]

I think it's scarier that the Italinas are trying to find the origin of women.

Couldn't resist

[lifeisgreat]

They already did, Venus Express launched on 2006-11-09, it arives at Veuns on Tuesday.

Now that's some good engineering!

Re:Couldn't resist

[nacnud75]

It's the stainless steel construction ;)

Metric vs SAE

[samurphy21]

At least the ESA can probably convert from old timey to scientific measurements properly.

<Mission control> Spacecraft 1, you are currently 1300 rods from impact, at a fuel consumption rate of 4 7/16 hogshead per mile. Be advised.

<Spacecraft> WTF?!

Girls are from...

[adyus]

Huh, I guess now that the space rovers on Mars failed to find any men, the geeks over at NASA are wondering if they'll discover any specimens of so-called "girls" on Venus...

Who knows, after this we might even get to understand how they work...

Leave the poor thing alone!

[UniverseIsADoughnut]

Poor planet, can't people leave it alone. It's just minding its own business and here come some dudes probing it. Would you want that, your just bumming around and whamo! probe to the ass in the name of science.

Stop planet Abuse now!

Re:Didn't you hear? It's GLOBAL WARMING

[WormholeFiend]

For an extra alternative view of how Venus was created, you should read Velikovsky's theory... :)

Mars

[Anonymous Coward]

Considering how good their track record is on Mars, I am not surprised they are going to Venus.

yea i can see why they want to peer

[the_REAL_sam]

http://www.sunspiritgallery.com/images/venus.jpg [sunspiritgallery.com]

Re:Didn't you hear? It's GLOBAL WARMING

[DreadfulGrape]

Wouldn't it be wild if we'd come to earth hundreds of thousands of years ago from Venus, seeded only by "Adam and Eve" who were a bit like breeding Superman(s), while the Venusian civilization died, and the one on Earth began to rebuild from scratch?

Wild, dude. BTW, pass that bong to me when you're done with it....

Re:I nominate a new kind of troll!

[Jeremi]

Before we had grammar nazis.. now we have.. Tense Nazis!

If you were a Nazi, you'd be tense too. All that "sig heiling" and ethnic clensing is really stressful...

Re:Men are from mars, women are from Venus

[lakeland]

The geeks

Re:Earth's own past is gloomy enough to warn us

[Ucklak]

Maybe the inhabitants of Venus are being used as batteries for the computers that run the place.
Before that, they darkened the skies with CO2 in an attempt to destroy the computers.

Regarding the Zeppelins, maybe the Venutians are highly advanced (or the AI is) and if we were to go to war with Venus, we'd lose and be turned into batteries in an instant. NASA knows this and tell us that there is no life on Venus because we can't risk being turned into batteries. This is also why stories of Martians or far more prevalent than stories of Venutians kicking Terrans(or Earthlings) ass; to take away the focus.

It figures....

[ZoneGray]

That proves it. Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus.

Re:Metric vs SAE

[PatrickThomson]

How many groats per chain is that, when you factor in the cost of lox and propellant?

Re:Earth's own past is gloomy enough to warn us

[Whiteox]

Hey Man... My wife is from Venus.

Re:Title is misleading

[Eunuchswear]

Hey, why do you think it's called Venus Express?