John Griffin wrote:
The most
common cause of death among Venus beetles with total exoskeletons
and a bit of water would be steam explosion. If your 100 bar is
correct, that would be one hell of a bang, so maybe death by
flying beetle debris would be more common.

Just for the heck of it, please do some arithmetic to see if I'm
right. Would 900-degree water boil into a 100-bar fluid?


We looked into this a few years ago on sci.space.history; water at the
temperatures and pressures of the surface of Venus would exist in a form
like really thick steam, but not a true liquid. Picture stuff that flows
across the surface like cold CO2 vapor flows around a glass of water
with dry ice in it.

Pat