Posted on 09/19/2020 8:56:15 AM PDT by MAGA2017
Venus Is a Russian Planet ... Says Russia
Just because you get there first, that doesn't mean you own it.
Russia has some strong feelings about the planet Venus. Dmitry Rogozin, the chief of Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, spoke at the 2020 HeliRussia exhibition and declared that Venus is a "Russian planet," according to the Russian news agency TASS. (It's not.)
This comes after the groundbreaking announcement on Monday that researchers have spotted potential evidence of life high in the clouds of Venus. The scientists found chemical signatures of a molecule called phosphine, which is only produced by living things or in places where there's high heat and pressure. Since Venus isn't subjected to high heat or high pressure, life might have just found a way.
Scientists have long suspected the caustic clouds coating Venus could harbor life. Unlike the stiflingly hot surface of the planet, its cloud decks are home to relatively Earth-like conditions, with temperatures hovering around 86 degrees Fahrenheit and pressures similar to what we feel at Earth's surface.
Between 1967 and 1984, the Soviet Union sent a number of probes to explore Venus. Most missions were unsuccessful, but several of these spacecraft returned important data about the planet. Venera 7, for instance, was the first probe to successfully land on Venus's surface. (It died shortly after.) Venera 9, which launched in 1976, snapped the first images of the dusty, desolate planet. The final Venera missions, 15 and 16, focused on mapping portions of the planet's surface.
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Everybody knows the 3 Stooges landed on the planet Sunev first so it belongs to Columbia Studios
Well, this gives the US Space Force space cruisers the authority to go in and blast the Ruski space colony fortresses to smithereens! “Damn the photon torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
Oh Venus
Make my Russian Dreams come true....
:)
I guess Russia needs more room?
You have to occupy it, and maintain that occupation. I don’t see that happening any time soon.
Seems to exclude our Project Thor.
There was a Russian Venus in the first Bond movie.
Thor is a surgical strike approach—the initial transfer of energy forms a narrow conic shockwave, which broadens in a similar fashion as an anti-armor explosive-shaped projectile. The kinetic impact device energy is transformed at the nose from energy of motion into a high temperature and high density plasma, much like found with a nuclear explosive, but confined within the small initial breech introduced into a hardened bunker. For a 9 metric ton device, the energy at Mach10 would be equivalent to a bit less than 12 tons TNT, but focused in the direction of travel, rather than omnidirectional.
Energy deposited into the materials surrounding the initial impact point will serve to broaden the entry point into a crater. There will be a localized heat flash effect. Super-heated metal vapor will support further combustIon once expelled into the immediate surroundings. These secondary effects are less widespread than other conventional military ordnance already available.
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