In case you haven't noticed, I frequently need to edit and utilize alalogies to help myself and perhaps a few others deal with what I see as doable, as opposed to the mainstream status quo stipulating otherwise.
I'm one of those fools that believes nothing is doable if the truth can NOT be told.
This topic of "Ashen Lights = other life on Venus, NOT as we know it" should have absolutely nothing to do with anything Apollo, other than the cold-war fact that humanity has blown away trillions of bucks, literally exterminated millions of folks needlessly, and subsequently wasted decades of resources and talents, and there's still an old-guard of those Apollo or bust folks that's need to be cared for until they and all of their relatives die off, and we have created several new generations of folks educated by the likes of our resident warlord "high standards and accountability" that can't add up 2 + 2, don't understand hydrogen, are snookered and/or scared to death over nuclear energy and so forth, believing in one dog-wagging lie after another, to the point of having our country and seemingly half the world running amuck in Iraq, and of far worse things.
Other than all of that, and of a few dozen other related collateral and carnage factors, plus a serious load of skewed physics related to supporting those laser photons bouncing off the moon, there's not all that much Apollo that should relate to photons, Venus, or even per my LSE-CM/ISS that I've been ranting upon for more than a couple of years worth.
BTW; we should have had a robotic lunar based laser cannon for interplanetary communications as of decades ago, that plus a few of those terrific resolution VLA-SAR image aperture receiving modules to boot.
  