Salutatio Keith!
10-Jan-98, Keith Knapp wrote to Andrew Cummins
          Subject: Back to Apes
 DB>> Now, it does not look like Venus ever had, or ever will support
 DB>> any form of life we can imagine.
 KK> AC>Why not?  Is it because Venus is stuck in an open system,
 KK> getting AC>energy from the sun?  Just what principle or law leads
 KK> you to AC>the conclusion that Venus will probably never support
 KK> any form AC>of life?????????????????
 KK> Andrew, it may have something to do with the fact that the surface
 KK> of Venus is at about 800 degrees F -- hot enough to melt lead.
Hey, Keith!  I recall Andy-boy vehemently against life on ANY other
world but our own, yet above I see a contradiction.  BTW, I wouldn't 
bother using logic or reason with him.  In case you hadn't noticed he is
incapable of it.
But hey, you and I can have some fun tossing this idea around.  Now, 
your reply to him looks to me like you are excluding ANY life from
forming on a planet with the conditions like those of Venus.  I feel I 
must disagree with this.  Life as we know it (carbon based) may not be 
able to form or exist unaided on Venus, but that does not mean that life
based on other compounds cannot.  You may be correct, or you may be 
incorrect... it is still open to question, right?
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca)
Richard Meic
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