Re: Space bugs
Bruce Moomaw discussed this on the ISSDG · Inner Solar System Discussion Group (ISSDG) bbs, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ISSDG/ .
He mentions a report of C. S. Cockell that argues that high multiplication rates of bacteria would allow them to survive this circulation rate to the lower atmosphere:
Title: Life on Venus
Authors: Cockell, C. S.
Affiliation: AA(M/S 239-20, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA)
Journal: Planetary and Space Science, Volume 47, Issue 12, p. 1487-1501. (P&SS Homepage)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?1999P&SS...47.1487C
Abstract
Bob Clark