#city history

[pelomundodascidades]

Looking@cities,Vienna pre Ringstrasse showing the old glacis (the former moat area) and to the right the Ringstrasse as it exists today, Vienna, Austria, 2023 https://lookingatcities.info/2023/02/28/the-1857-competition-for-the-vienna-ringstrasse-and-an-analysis/

[squidinkarchives]

Nameplate for Kansas City, MO Stone - Sidewalk & Co.

"Factory 2 & Oak Office 7 & Central TEL - 1997"

Source: Baldwin, MO Generation's Real Estate & Auctions

[lunegrimm]

Nachtschwärmer - [night owl/ night person]

New personal piece just in time for the return of the werewolf designs (more details will follow soon] I felt like making coloured version this time as well & I love how it looks! #WerewolfWednesday

[lucasm]

Prior department store, Brno

Date: 1974-1984

Architects: Zdeněk Řihák, Zdeněk Sklepek, Jan Melichar

In the 1970s, Brno needed modern business premises, which led to the construction of the Prior department store, an architectural masterpiece in the Brutalist style. The original ambitious plans to expand the city southwards were thwarted by the occupation in 1968, so only a smaller version of the project was realised. Prior opened in 1984 and met all the requirements for retail space at the time. The building is noted for its massive concrete structure and sculptural detailing on the upper floors. Today it no longer meets the needs of modern commerce and is awaiting demolition.

1984-2024

[livesunique]

City Palace, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

[marketingmover]

The History of Bell Gardens, California and Reasons People are Moving there with Marketing Movers

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Discover the rich history of Bell Gardens, California, and why using Marketing Movers can make your relocation to this vibrant city a seamless experience. Introduction Bell Gardens, California, is a city rich in history and culture, offering a unique blend of past and present. Moving to this vibrant city can be an exciting adventure, and using a professional moving company like Marketing Movers…

[menandwomanofhistory]

Allen Pomeroy

[leocadra]

Bruges | West Flanders | Belgium.

[zegalba]

Although located in the heart of Chongging, one of China's mega cities, Luohan Temple was constructed over 1000 years ago. Its ancient corridors lead to worn stone depictions of the Buddha while its wooden halls wafts with incense and are adorned with hundreds of local colourful deities.

[deep-space-netwerk]

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

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!

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:

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.

[gluten-free-lap-dances]

Rome on film 10.2024

Canon AE-1 / Kodak Gold 200

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The girls are back (from the grave)

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[visionsofnightfall]

Edinburgh yesterday.

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