After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over The odyssey of the Soviet Union's failed attempt to reach Venus came to an end over the weekend with the probe either disintegrating during reentry or what remained of it splashing harmlessly into the ocean. Venera-8 Descent Module A Venera-8 descent module (source: NASA archive) The spacecraft, dubbed Kosmos 482, had …
Hopefully it remembered to lay its eggs on their side before impact!
Great.
We've got BLUE HADES in the Atlantic, kaiju crawling out of the Pacific, shapeshifters buried under the ice in Antarctica, Borg under the ice in the Artic - and now Venusian outcasts in the Indian Ocean!
I'm sticking to swimming at the local Lido. Hmm, strange looking wet footprints leading from the pool to the changing room, wonder what
Worry not ... prolly just RFK Jr. coming back from a bout of sewage skinny-dipping as his usual pre-blob mutant humanoid self.
This module is beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous. At least under this angle.
It alternatively reminds me of:
- The Devourers' space ship, from Liu Cixin's "The Devourer"
- An upgraded AC compressor pulley for a BMW n54 that would NEVER break, screech, or go bad in any other way (the pulley, not the engine. I can dream, but I can't dream the impossible). Somehow it doesn't have ribs for the belt, but that's a detail.
The above would be revealing of what my recent reads and little tasks have been lately.
... or even the rear wheel-hub motor of a TS Verge mechanical death machine that fell-off a Venusian bike on an interplanetary joyride ...
no mention of radiation or how it was powered any place. I suspect like many similar devices it was powered by magic that kinda fights life. If it had burned up it would have done what others have, and sprinkle that magic all over. That skin cancer from the sun, is more likely from fallout, over the last 70 years.
Other Venera probes were powered by more conventional chemical batteries because Venusian surface conditions weren't great for the same kind of RTG power sources that we use on Mars. That doesn't prove that this one didn't try it, but it seems likely they'd do the same thing they did with previous probes on which the batteries were sufficient for their experiments.
Kaiju No1 to be spotted soon.
Humanity will have to build its first Jaeger.
Ref : Pacific Rim (2013)
Getting the hell out of Dodge =====>
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