Why Didn't Anyone Believe the First Machine on Venus?

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  @deepcosmiclove · 1 day ago (edited)

  In the 1950's Velikovsky predicted Venus would be very hot based on ancient texts describing it as "incandescent" or "fiery."

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• OS

  @oscarman58 · 10 hours ago

  Excellent narrative of a very significant first in planetary exploration. I had known of the 16 missions to Venus and the later first photograph of the surface. This presentation fleshes out the significance of the exploration quite a bit. Thank you.

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• SI

  @simongore · 5 days ago (edited)

  Asking me to subscribe before the content plays is like asking for a review before the meal arrives.

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• DA

  @davidstepeck2644 · 1 day ago

  This music is killing me. It’s like a Lifetime channel movie or something.

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• TO

  @tomn9094 · 7 days ago

  What’s with all the Jupiter b roll? This is what we get to look forward to with the ai.

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• AU

  @austinmorris981 · 10 days ago (edited)

  From the deep-space radio-telescope center near Yevpatoria, on the Crimean peninsula of the USSR.  This facility was equivalent to a US radio telescope, the Goldstone Deep Space Network station in the Mojave Desert, in Southern California.  I am old enough to remember a time when science fiction stories would depict the planet Venus as a water world with breathable air, tropical jungles, river bayous, and fetid swamps.  The Soviet designers couldn’t have known any of the unpleasant truths until after the early probes had failed.  One can’t help but wonder what would have happened if the Planet Venus had turned out to be an earthlike world in reality?  What would the Cold War Space Race have been like if that had been the reality?

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• JE

  @JennyTheSecularFelinist · 2 days ago

  Despite the political tensions, there was amazing science done in that era.

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• JA

  @jasonmeola6651 · 5 days ago

  Venus exploration was a Soviet imperative as it was a Russian who discovered Venus had an atmosphere. Mikhail Lomonosov, 1761.

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• TH

  @theevermind · 2 days ago

  If you don&apos;t seal the container and instead just allow the pressure to balance, you don&apos;t need any of that armor.<br>It&apos;s probably easier to get instrumentation to work at high temperature than it is to BOTH that AND fight the stresses from the temperature and pressure.

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  @TheJadeFist · 2 days ago

  I like how none of the visuals has anything to do with Venus, then randomly on topic graphs thrown in.

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• KR

  @krozareq · 5 days ago

  One of the big proposals for a Venus mission is a pressure computer. Instead of electricity through heat-sensitive ICs, instead it&apos;s pressurized gas through an intricate manifold to move valves in order to act as transistors.

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• CR

  @crimfan · 3 days ago

  The Soviet scientists were incredibly skilled.

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