From Wikipedia: "When planetary scientists began to have a need to discuss Venus in detail, an adjective was needed. Based on Latin principles, the correct adjectival form of the name would be Venerean. However, this term has an unfortunate similarity to the word venereal as in venereal diseases (related to "Venerean" as martial is to "Martian"), and is not generally used by astronomers.[1] The term Venusian is etymologically messy (similar to saying "Earthian" or "Jupiterian"), and a "cleaner" version was desired."

Venerean sounds like venereal. That's why it's not used. Seriously. Whoever upvoted you is a moron.

Fresh, solid and intelligent articles on TECH, and a banning of any and all trolls. Start there.

You really don't understand how this Internet thing works, do you?

If only I had mod points. Good comment. Sad when the smartest comments come from ACs.

So you'd have no real issue if I decided to eat you and your family, because I'm hungry? Oh, that's right. The right to live applies only to humans.

True. Nor are we "going to the stars". What a load of fantastical sci-fi rubbish. Generations of moron children raised on cardboard television sets depicting swashbuckling interstellar captains screwing green alien chicks. Grow up already.

Should have named it Enterprise.

"Made With Code teamed with the National Park Service to make the lighting of the White House Christmas trees a girls-only coding project." Discrimination is morally-justified when it's really just revenge dressed up as diversity.

News for Nerds? Check. Stuff that matters? Not so much.

Have you ever called out "computer, end program", just to see if the (simulated) universe would disappear?

Earth clearly has water, and we think Mars was much, much wetter billions of years ago, and many scientists theorize Venus once had an abundant liquid water supply, so if so, that's three planets within a band of the Solar System, and thus is stands to reason that liquid water exists at least in similarly configured extra solar systems, right? Of course that doesn't answer the question of whether water is either endogenous or exogenous, or a little of both, but if asteroids and comets can carry water, enough to populate perhaps three planets, why can't the planets themselves carry a proportional abundance of water? Then again, I'm no planetologist, so I'm probably barking out my asshole.

Sounds Orwellian to me, but that's the default state of the EU.

....because human greed is infinite, whereas resources are not.

So the mammoth was killed by humans. And this is news, how? I'd be far more surprised if they had found a hominid-disarticulated apatosaurus, as would most educated people, which excludes creationists, naturally.