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itznarcotic:

some people say CSM or JJK are the most impactful anime to have been exported from Studio MAPPA, but they will never top Lily Zombieland Saga who single-handedly impacted the setting of UK politics just by existing

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literallymechanical:

deep-space-netwerk:

So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

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It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn’t exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury’s. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn’t even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn’t have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn’t spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

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The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It’s lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn’t technically “need” to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

• Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one’s lens cap didn’t deploy.
• Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn’t deploy.
• Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.
• Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian “soil”. Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn’t be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

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However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

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sorcerousmotes:

if i was a slimegirl i would take great satisfaction in being strained through a mesh sieve. like taking a really good shower.

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oriko-mikuni:

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oriko-mikuni:

Reisen runs deep into hell instead of coming across Eientei. Satori finds her. Loves her as much as she loves all her other pets (a lot) and expresses this as well as she does to her other pets (not at all). Reisen gets job as gatekeeper (she’s a hardworking bunny). Gets the news about the lunar invasion. Freaks the fuck out. Disaster ensues

Like I’ve been trying to square how affectionate Satori clearly is in the cross review and how reticent her pets are to come to her after Okuu goes nuclear and it leads to some hilarious conclusions. Reisen thinks Satori is gonna gut her

And of course the brave generals of hell (Udonge and Orin) must call up their legions (whatever random spirits Orin can find) and meet the Lunar invasion in the field (smack in middle of Gensokyo)

Like you don’t understand. They both kinda hate each other because they’re battling for Satori’s approval (Okuu doesn’t factor into this because she’s kind of a dumbass and they both think she can’t win), but they don’t actually know anything about Satori because she’s so bad at expressing herself, so they’re both on a hair trigger with Satori and well, they may not like each other, but Orin doesn’t want Reisen to die. And then you go on and the whole operation is near falling apart because obviously they can’t go anywhere near Satori, that would ruin the whole plan, but also they can barely cooperate at this point because Orin doesn’t have a goal beyond “I don’t want Udonge to get gutted, I just want her to say I’m smarter”

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occasionaltouhou:

list of good touhou fangames:

• the last comer (has iesua in it)
• the insane soccer one because it let me create this image

deadslugart:

Small

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deadslugart:

BIG

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arkiwii:

fishing-lesbian-catgirl:

I was looking up Scavenger Arknights to check something but instead I found this extremely good image

there is only two gay people in the world. one is scavenger, the other must be decided in a royal battle. good luck

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hypotheticalpeople:

guy who conceives of every doorway he walks through as entering something and never exiting and he constantly feels like he is proceeding deeper and wishing he could get back to the start

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yamigedo:

the short answer is that it’s boring. it falls into the same category as the coma theory - what if the character was in a coma the whole time, and everything that happened was imaginary? well, it’d suck, is what it’d do

coma plots are almost always boring, coma theories moreso. it’s not impossible to make an interesting coma plot but it’s extremely difficult to nail - but a good coma plot is always less about the inside of the dream and more about what it says about the dreaming character. a coma plot must be tailoured to the characterisation of the one having it, or at the very least, those around that person

but it’s for this reason that a coma theory is almost impossible to make interesting, because definitionally a coma theory rejects absolutely everything about the story itself. it cannot say anything about a character that is not already in the story, said in a more interesting way

what is touhou about? even back then, even right back at the start, what was the actual story of touhou? what was it about? it was this funny little pocket hidden away with not much lore and some funny little guys, but even then you can see the ideas that zun would later develop. it’s isolated. it’s a youkai refuge. it’s the place where forgotten things gather

and it is simply so much less interesting to reject all of that in favour of “but what if it was made up” like yeah, idiot, of course it’s made up, it was written by a dude named zun who has thoughts and opinions that he wants to convey with the story that he’s creating and sharing and you have the fucking audacity to say that none of that matters. what if reimu was in a coma the whole time. bastards

occasionaltouhou:

it is crucial to the nature of touhou that nobody is actually that cool. everyone is at least a little bit of a loser, and usually more

sanitymakesposts:

Watch out bro! Your robo-friend is starting up their kissy protocol and they input you as a parameter!

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Join @kittycatherder, @darkwizardjamesmason and myself for some Shin Megami Tensei If…

Yes, the ellipsis are apparently in the title.

demilypyro:

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demilypyro:

The inherent conflict in my soul is that I hate the concept of monarchy and inequality in general but also I think the aesthetic of a powerful demon and/or vampire queen is fucking cool

Obviously power to the people and stuff but also I *need* to sit on a throne as servants bring me wine and I make my enemies beg like dogs for my forgiveness

….. I never thought about it like that

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