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Skywatchers across the world are in for a celestial treat Monday night as two of the brightest naked-eye planets, Venus and Jupiter, join a thin crescent moon to create a brief "unhappy face" in the sky.Skywatchers across the world are in for a celestial treat Monday night as two of the... more
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Controversial German glamour model Tatjana Gsell has a hot new job – to be the face of this year’s Venus sex trade fair. And what a face!
The erotic ambassador’s mission is to spread sex and fun to make Berlin a hotter place during the event, from October 16-19.
And that mean four days of sex in the German capital!
For a month, Tatjana Gsell has appeared on 5,000 posters urging Berliners to make a ‘sexpedition’ to Venus 2008, which features 400 exhibitors in eight halls, a total of 30,000 square metres.
Tickets can be ordered online for €22, or on the door for €25.
Anyone who doesn’t find anything stimulating at Venus is probably beyond help! There will be sex toys, porno stars, hot parties, the latest from the fetish world – you’ll be left standing with your mouth open in astonishment. There will even be saucy sex which not everyone would find tasteful…
And of course, you can meet the lovely Tatjana Gsell yourself on the opening day. But if you don’t get the chance, then check out our hot picture gallery!Controversial German glamour model Tatjana Gsell has a hot new job – to be the... more
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Austrians are celebrating 100 years since the discovery of a tiny but curvy statuette that dates back 25,000 years.
The 11cm-tall (four-inch) stone figure - the Venus of Willendorf - will be in a special show at Vienna's Natural History Museum with similar statuettes. Austria's post office is also to unveil a stamp in her honour on Friday, the Associated Press reports. Fans can already buy chocolates, soap and sweets modelled on her famously voluptuous figure.
A very early representation of a female body, the statuette was found by archaeologists in the hamlet of Willendorf, by the Danube, in 1908. Given to the Natural History Museum, she first went on public show in 1998. The display to mark the centenary of her discovery, opening on Saturday, will also feature figurines of women found in Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, the AP says.
The Venus of Willendorf, which was not made from local materials, dates back to the Paleolithic era, a time when woolly mammoth still roamed the area. Walpurga Antl-Weiser, at the Natural History Museum, told the AP it was difficult to know what the statuette's makers intended her to represent - perhaps a fertility symbol or goddess - but she held a fascination for people.
"She's very corpulent but still very beautiful," she said. "One gets the feeling she has become an icon."
Austrians are celebrating 100 years since the discovery of a tiny but curvy statuette... more
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Seemingly, people in the space community have a tendency to push the boundaries of thought about all the possibilities that await us in the universe. Case in point: Geoffrey Landis. Landis is a scientist at NASA's Glenn Research Center who writes science fiction in his spare time. Last week Landis shared with us his ideas for using a solar powered airplane to study Venus. This week, Landis goes a step farther (actually, several steps farther) with his ideas about colonizing Venus. Yes, Venus, our hot, greenhouse-effect-gone-mad neighboring planet with a crushing surface pressure that has doomed the few spacecraft that have attempted to reach the planet's mysterious landscape. Landis knows Venus' surface itself is pretty much out of the question for human habitation. But up about 50 kilometers above the surface, Landis says the atmosphere of Venus is the most Earth-like environment, other than Earth itself, in the solar system. What Landis proposes is creating floating cities on Venus where people could live and work, as well as study the planet below.Seemingly, people in the space community have a tendency to push the boundaries of... more
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"Life on Venus could be blown to Earth by powerful winds, scientists claim.
Previous research has considered the possibility of micro organisms existing in Venus's atmosphere despite extreme temperatures on its surface.
But two scientists at the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology say microbes from Venus could actually be blown into the Earth's atmosphere by solar winds.
Their findings follow analysis of data from the European Space Agency's Venus Express probe, launched in 2005.
Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe and Dr Janaki Wickramasinghe claim Venus's clouds contain chemicals that are consistent with the presence of micro organisms.
They suggest that under certain conditions, these microbes from high in Venus's atmosphere could be blown into the Earth's atmosphere.
This process would only take days or weeks.
But the Sun, Earth and Venus must be suitably aligned, which last happened in 2004 and will not happen again until 2012.
Prof Wickramasinghe said: "Venus and Earth have often been referred to as sisters because of their geological similarities.
"Our research proposes that the two sisters may be biologically interconnected as well." "Life on Venus could be blown to Earth by powerful winds, scientists claim.... more
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"Some of you may have heard me talk about colonizing Venus. Well, for those who haven't, Universe Today is running story about floating cities on Venus. It's a reasonable alternative for space colonies — after all, the atmosphere of Venus (at about 50 km) is the most Earth-like environment in the solar system (other than Earth, of course). '50 km above the surface, Venus has air pressure of approximately 1 bar and temperatures in the 0C-50C range, a quite comfortable environment for humans. Humans wouldn't require pressurized suits when outside, but it wouldn't quite be a shirtsleeves environment. We'd need air to breathe and protection from the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere.'"
This link was a sum up, the link to the actual article is on this site. Pretty neato."Some of you may have heard me talk about colonizing Venus. Well, for those who... more
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Venus in the limelight: A new type of cloud has formed in the planets atmosphere. A mysterious chemical is absorbing UV rays in the clouds causing the clouds to dim and brighten. Just reminds me a little of the beginning stages of our planet Earth, billions of years ago.
Info originally from Space.com - but aolnews has pretty sweet images to look at :)Venus in the limelight: A new type of cloud has formed in the planets atmosphere. A... more
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Other than the hellish heat, a crushing carbon dioxide atmosphere and corrosive clouds of sulfuric acid, Venus is a lot like Earth, scientists said yesterday.
In a news conference at the Paris headquarters of the European Space Agency, the scientists, working on the agencys Venus Express mission, played up the Venus-as-Earths-twin angle in presenting their newest findings, including signs of lightning, surprising swings of temperature and additional evidence that Venus could have once had oceans the size of Earths.
Theyre really twins which are just separated at birth, said Dmitri Titov, the missions science coordinator. The key question is why those twins are so different.
Understanding the dynamics and history of Venuss turbulent atmosphere could lead to a better understanding of the role that heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide play in shaping the climate of planets including Earth.
Eight scientific articles describing the observations of Venus Express, the first spacecraft to visit the planet in more than a decade, appear in todays issue of the journal Nature.
Venus is about the same size and mass as Earth, and of roughly the same composition. And before the space age, planetary scientists imagined an Earth-like environment, perhaps even tropical jungles, obscured by Venuss perpetual cloud cover. But in 1958, when astronomers measured intense microwaves emanating from the planet, they first got a hint that it was not as lush as they had imagined.Other than the hellish heat, a crushing carbon dioxide atmosphere and corrosive clouds... more
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