On Jul 7, 12:05 pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
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

Hot h2o2 would due rather nicely in the buff.

Lava/mud flows would likely contain their fair share of water, and
perhaps even in some degree of such a hot geothermal forced substance
hosting h2o2, along with any number of other nifty elements.

Otherwise we have those rather serious gas vents of CO2 and S8 to work
with, that should also contribute some degree of vaporised h2o along
with many other interesting super-heated vapors.

Venus is seemingly a newish planetology on steroids.
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Brad Guth