  Millimeter-waveband spectra of Venus from both the James Clerk Maxwell
Telescope (JCMT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)
provide conclusive evidence (signal-to-noise ratio of about $15\sigma$) of a
phosphine absorption-line profile against the thermal background from deeper,
hotter layers of the atmosphere. Phosphine is an important biomarker; e.g., the
trace of phosphine in the Earth's atmosphere is uniquivocally associated with
anthropogenic activity and microbial life (which produces this highly reducing
gas even in an overall oxidizing environment). Motivated by the JCMT and ALMA
tantalizing observations we reexamine whether Venus could accommodate Earthly
life. More concretly, we hypothesize that the microorganisms populating the
venusian atmosphere are not free floating but confined to the liquid
environment inside cloud aerosols or droplets. Armed with this hypothesis, we
generalize a study of airborne germ transmission to constrain the maximum size
of droplets that could be floating in the venusian atmosphere and estimate
whether their Stokes fallout times to reach moderately high temperatures are
pronouncedly larger than the microbe's replication time. We also comment on the
effect of cosmic ray showers on the evolution of aerial microbial life.
