[ur-whale]

> why dont they send a probe to scoop up some venus air and bring it back?

Well, there's the scenario where a Venusian superbug, having evolved in the roughest possible conditions (temp, acidity, etc...) in the upper Venusian atmosphere, will find Earth's conditions warm, balmy, and altogether ideal to reproduce at 1000x the rate it was constrained to back home :D

[AnimalMuppet]

Pretty sure it's not going to find earth conditions to be warm. If it's an upper atmosphere bug, it may not find Earth to be too cold, but it won't find it to be warm.