Worlds we landed across the Solar System

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okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 73d (5 replies)

That font had me thinking we landed on something called Carth for a sec.

Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 73d (3 replies)

It's the only E that's like that, for some reason.

thenextguy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 73d (2 replies)

And only when it’s the first letter? There’s two other E that are fine.

Mac@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 73d (1 reply)

Maybe it's caps vs not?

s@piefed.world · 13 pts · 73d

Yes, I found the font used

s@piefed.world · 1 pts · 73d

I was thinking Arrakis

MantisToboggon@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 73d (6 replies)

Earth kinda landed on us.

Pickleideas@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 73d (2 replies)

I mean, technically the first people to land on the moon were also the first people to travel to earth. I wonder if that technicality will be a point of debate for a distant future civilization since it was a round-trip

EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 73d (1 reply)

I'd consider Juri Gagarin to be the first who landed on earth

BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 73d

Erm actually the first person to jump was the first person to land

stephen@lazysoci.al · 9 pts · 73d (1 reply)

You speak of 'landing' as if it were a choice, as if our ancestors stepped off a ship with a dream in their hearts and a map in their hands. No. They were dragged from the soil of their own homes, shackled in the belly of a beast, and dropped into a nightmare. That rock didn't welcome us; it crushed us. It was the foundation of a system built to keep us beneath it, to ensure that no matter how hard we pushed, the weight of that history would keep us pinned to the bottom.

Do not mistake the victim of a collision for a passenger on the ship. We were not the ones steering the vessel; we were the cargo, and the wreckage of that 'landing' is still felt in every generation that has had to claw its way out from under the debris"

MantisToboggon@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 73d

No I mean your mom is as fat as the earth and the bitch landed on me.

saltesc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 73d

Really depends on how the birth goes.

lime@feddit.nu · 19 pts · 73d

very convenient that they all line up like that. has anyone checked the ridgeline of that quarry outside LA where kirk fought the gorn?

nuko147@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 73d (2 replies)

Putting earth as a world we landed is like putting your homeland in the countries you have traveled.

Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 73d

Seems legit to me.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 73d

I've personally landed on Earth thousands of times.

mech@feddit.org · 8 pts · 73d

Venus is really the most impressive of them all.
Especially with how little we knew of it before.

PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 7 pts · 73d (1 reply)

"All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there."

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 73d

monolith screeching intensifies

14th_cylon@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 73d (3 replies)
Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 73d (2 replies)

Impact is not landing.

Zolidus@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 73d (1 reply)

Um, sure it is. Just very fast & violently.

lefty7283@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 73d

Good ol’ lithobraking

MrShankles@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 73d (1 reply)

Now land on Jupiter!

Karjalan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 73d

Needs clarification on "land"

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 73d (1 reply)

It's still wild that we managed to put a Lander on Titan. Can't wait for the Dragonfly mission. Nuclear powered octacopter on Titan. We're going to learn so much.

Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 73d

It's such an amazingly awesome mission, I love every part of it.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 73d

Well, our robots.

favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 73d (1 reply)
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EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 73d

Of course, I mean good luck landing on a gas planet

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 73d

We "landed"? Like had sex with them? Or "landed on"?

Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 73d (3 replies)

Didn't something land on Mercury as well?

Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 73d (2 replies)

Not landed, as far as I know. There were like three missions that flew by Mercury. Getting a stable route after having traveled so close to the sun is damn hard.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 73d

Right, Mercury is the "lump of clay" in the oven, not the volcany "pressure cooker" that is Venus. Mixed them up.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 73d

Just name the probe Daedelus. That should work.

/s

Marternus@discuss.tchncs.de · -6 pts · 73d (6 replies)

The Venus pic is bs

Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 73d (3 replies)

The Russian space program worked incredibly hard to get those images. They focused on Venus when nobody else was sending missions there. I mean, still nobody else has really sent anything there!

But the Venera Program was incredibly successful, despite Venus being an extraordinarily harsh environment to operate in.

Marternus@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 73d (2 replies)

I didn't know about it. I thought it must be impossible to have an image that was shot in a 450° hot sulfuric acid cloud that looks like normal rocks. It's unbelievable.

teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 73d (1 reply)

Iirc, the probe lasted half an hour before being destroyed. It's an astonishing achievement to have sent back those pictures.

Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 73d

That sounds right. I recall that one of the probes had a camera that was able to take a series of images like a video. But the video visually degraded with every shot it took after opening the lens cap. The effect was like watching a movie as the projector film starts to melt.

Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 73d (1 reply)

Lol, wut?

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 73d

The picture was black and white. The yellow was added after.

I was mistaken, the 2nd last and final probe had colour.