#my favorite city
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
israelcastillophoto · 1 year ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Nostalgia , pt 1
35 notes · View notes
aemondsbabygirl · 9 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Magnolias in bloom 🌸
11 notes · View notes
norrisjm · 6 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
Summer in Pittsburgh
3 notes · View notes
liorah-in-the-bronx · 4 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
0 notes
kodasea · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
Son of Gondor
5K notes · View notes
deep-space-netwerk · 1 year ago
Text
So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.
Tumblr media
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!
Tumblr media
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:
Tumblr media
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.
28K notes · View notes
ylissebian · 1 year ago
Text
Tumblr media
WOMEN ARE MY FAVORITE GUY 💥
24K notes · View notes
frank-o-meter · 1 year ago
Text
(1) Palace of Montjuic (looking up from Plaça Espanya
(2) Park Güell (designed by Gaudi)
(3) Plaça Reial (near the end of Las Ramblas)
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Barcelona (by Michaela Loheit)
446 notes · View notes
theanonymousninja247 · 3 months ago
Text
The Wild Robot
My Response After Watching it
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Y’all. I believe in humanity again if THAT is what people can create. What a story. WHAT. A. Story.
Please. Please. PLEASE. Take the time to watch it. It is BEYOND worth it.
614 notes · View notes
xxplastic-cubexx · 2 months ago
Note
I need to see your version of devil Charles and angel Erik of the special draw for Halloween they've done😂😂
Tumblr media
i haven't much time today i fear but ill ALWAYS find enough time for Them
565 notes · View notes
enden-k · 1 month ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
i am NOT immune to silly horny major bark i mean major cock i mean major kwak
488 notes · View notes
jdragsky · 1 year ago
Text
i'm gonna go one step further and say it's actively good to engage with media you have fundamental ideological disagreements with, especially when you use that as a testing ground to conceptualize your own worldview and help you crystalize your perspective on things
2K notes · View notes
norrisjm · 9 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
I ♥️Pittsburgh
from, Pittsburgh for Life
3 notes · View notes
monstertidbits · 1 year ago
Text
Tumblr media
coming january 4th
2K notes · View notes
mongeesemeese · 16 days ago
Text
Tumblr media
Gotham has giant rats. Like, could eat your dog-size rats. Kids who live in the worse parts of town have to be wary due to rumors of the rats committing muggings.
Tumblr media
And here we see Jason Todd, about to experience his first rat fist fight.
336 notes · View notes
cowgirls-blues · 6 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
✨Vox Phantasma ✨
Hocus-pocus, brother.
685 notes · View notes