Venera 7 was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus. When it landed on the Venusian surface on 15 December 1970, it became the very first spacecraft to soft land on another planet as well as the first to transmit data from there back to Earth.
Venera 7 entered the atmosphere of Venus on 15 December 1970. The lander remained attached to the interplanetary bus during the initial stages of atmospheric entry, to allow the bus to cool the lander to −8 °C (17 °F) for as long as possible. The lander was ejected once atmospheric buffeting broke the interplanetary bus's lock-on with Earth. The parachute opened at a height of 60 km, and atmospheric testing began with results showing the atmosphere to be 97% carbon dioxide. The parachute was initially reefed down to 1.8 square meters, opening to 2.5 square meters 13 minutes later, when the reefing line melted as designed. Six minutes after the unreefing, the parachute started to fail, resulting in a descent more rapid than planned. The parachute eventually failed completely, and the probe entered a period of freefall. As a result, the lander struck the surface of Venus at about 16.5 m/s (59 km/h; 37 mph) at 05:37:10 UTC. The landing coordinates are 5°S 351°E.
The probe appeared to go silent on impact, but recording tapes kept rolling. A few weeks later, upon a review of the tapes by the radio astronomer Oleg Rzhiga, another 23 minutes of very weak signals were found on them. The spacecraft had landed on Venus, and probably bounced onto its side, leaving the medium gain antenna aimed incorrectly for proper signal transmission to Earth. The probe transmitted information to Earth for 53 minutes, which included about 20 minutes from the surface. From the spacecraft's rapid halt (from falling to stationary inside 0.2 seconds), it was possible to conclude that the craft had hit a solid surface with low levels of dust. The probe provided information about the surface of Venus, which could not be seen through a thick veil of atmosphere. The spacecraft definitively confirmed that humans cannot survive on the surface of Venus, and excluded the possibility that there is any liquid water on the planet.
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I hate to be venting about this shit all the time in the mega but I'm honestly kind of just sick of this shit lol....I'm sick of the dysfunction, the apathy, all the weird bullshit I've had to put up with with these people. Like what the fuck is the point of paying a $3500 mortgage each month if you're going to fill your house with garbage, like two rooms in the house are covered in black mold due to how little anyone cleans, can't use any space for anything useful because they just insist on endlessly buying shit they won't use instead of bothering to get some kind of help for their obvious trauma, etc.
It shouldn't be normal to have a conversation with your family member go normally until they suddenly call you stupid or some shit like that or have your mom make some insane comment about how my dad would commit incest if he could and then have my older bro be like "oh she's just a traumatized old lady, stop calling her out you selfish idiot!" and I'm like bruh she used to beat my severely disabled brother until he was choking on his tears and my sister would start crying and threatening to call the cops...she used to lock your ass outside of the house in the winter after sundown...like bruh I genuinely was close to calling the cops like 5-6 times when she splintered the door to your bedroom in our apartments when we were kids...why the fuck are you defending this nutcase?
I am a communist, I do not like bullies regardless of gender, and I still remember the time my mother tried to fucking drown my ass in the bathtub or beat me with a hockey stick over $20 at ten fucking years old (she cracked my older brothers arm when doing this btw because she was legit enraged and my older brother got involved and she then got a metal club and swing straight onto his arm) or when she used to swing my younger brother by his legs out of his crib and smack his head on the couch or when she used to beat my sister and call her a prostitute...FOH with that bullshit
Genuinely sorry to hear this, sounds truly awful. Please don't feel bad for venting, it's what spaces like these are good for.
I can't give much specific advice, other than to try to extricate yourself from this mess as soon as circumstances allow. Some problems are not solveable, and you owe yourself the option to just walk away. I know that's perhaps not immediately feasible. Can you ask your sister for help or advice in this regard?
Re: concerns about friendship and wanting to be left alone: I promise promise promise that things can get better in this regard. I'm lucky enough that my social world does not look like your brother's, and can firmly assure you that his manipulative behaviour should not form the basic assumptions of yours. There are other modalities of being out there, based on love, mutual respect, curiosity and sincerity. That sounds sappy and cliched, but it is part of my lived experience. If it's not out there for you then I've lost the plot.
If you can do one thing for me: You are obviously a passionate and empathetic person. Keep these flames burning until you can find some likeminded people to sit around the fire with and commiserate, maybe even laugh about, the ridiculous circumstances you've survived.
If this sounds vague, hand-wavy and idealistic I apologise. Send us a message if there's something more materially helpful to be done. Solidarity forever.