#cap talks

[feralstruggler]

#my brain betraying me like it's nothing #silent hill #lisa garland #sh1 #cap talks

[capisback]

I love how people are daunted by one piece’s length and fear starting it, and meanwhile One Piece fans are crying because there’s an ending in sight and most of us are hoping it’s gonna go on for another ten years or so

#one piece fans my beloved #y'all the real mvps #one piece fans are another breed I swear #everyone be like oh but it's so long :( idk man that's scary #and one piece fans are like DONT END PLEASE #END BUT DONT WE CANNOT HANDLE IT #want that ending but not so soon #''so soon'' as if one piece didn't start publication in 1997 #can't make one piece immortality jokes now anymore so sad #cap talks #one piece #op

[cappless]

Labyrinth (the movie from the 80s) is in theaters rn if you even care and people were NOT LYING that man is SO SEXY she is better than me

#cap talks #labyrinth #good movie #10/10

[capeta]

As much as Twitter has been fun I do miss tumblr. It always feels like a factory reset when I start posting new fandom stuff on twitter but on here? We all got the tism here its all fun

#cap chats #cap talks

[capminn]

OKAY AWESOME! My home blog (aka this one) is getting fully revamped! I'm over seeing my home blog collecting dust so now I have two mains. This one and @capeta. Capeta will be my cluttered blog whilst this one I'll try and keep more clean with art only.

#cap talks #cap chats

[creation-help]

STOP BEING SELF CONSCIOUS ABOUT YOUR CREATIONS STOP SECOND GUESSING WHAT YOU REALLY WANNA DO STOP DEBATING IT'S WORTH. LET YOUR ART SERVE YOU INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND

#artist inspiration #writer inspiration #artists on tumblr #Writers on Tumblr #writblr #writeblr #Artblr #Artist motivation #writing motivation #Mod talks #All caps #cw caps #tw caps

[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.

#space #space history #venus #NASA #Venera #spost #I will talk all day about venus #ask me about venus floating sky cities #unpopular opinion venus > mars #this is probably my favorite space history story #the surface of venus is made of lens caps #don't try to tell me the universe doesn't have a sense of humor #well #I guess its more that people have a sense of humor and we happen to live in the universe

[knightbloomings]

Nothing like adding new songs to ur OCs playlist and listening through it a few times to make sure everything flows, musically and thematically

#cap speaks #cap talks #i cant remember whixh one it is #but i fucking love making playlists

[nasa-caps]

oh how time flies~ covid ruined a lot of things. and my country is currently a military zone. i wish to escape from here soon~~

#life’s a bitch #update #cap talks

[valkaryah]

shes my favourite crybaby to ever be born

#her big wobbly tearful eyes and runny nose are so endearing to me #my poor sweet girl #who practices the dark arts #marcille #dungeon meshi #manga cap #valkaryah talks

[justanotherignot]

Letter from Isobel (AND AYLIN!)

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #bg3 spoilers #aylin x isobel #dame aylin #aylin #bg3 aylin #isobel thorm #isobel #bg3 isobel #justanotherignot #has anyone actually gotten this? #because i had to do some tiny brain gymnastics to make it appear in my game #anyway this is fucking adorable #they sound married #i love that aylin felt the need to add the postscript even if it's just to repeat what isobel already said #aylin talks in all caps and she writes in all caps #and apparently she and isobel are doing a spinoff #the moon lesbians are detectives now

[feralstruggler]

He is just like me frfr

#les mis #les miserables #funny #hello is this me #cap talks

[capisback]

I know it’s haha funny to laugh at dutch and call it discount english or what-have-you, but I stopped finding it funny a long, long time ago. There’s so much active distaste for a language that has every right to exist and be found beautiful, but it’s hated by people who don’t speak it and native speakers who do. Why would you call any language lesser than? Any language better than another? There’s so much beauty to be found in each language, so many different ways of life and seeing the world, so many different words and sayings and ways to love that you can’t find in another. Dutch is no different, and it deserves to be appreciated, not driven into the ground and disregarded as a worn piece of clothing that’s served its purpose

#you don't even learn proper dutch in school anymore #listen I just #I'm so sad about this #I used to have this mindset of: english is better than dutch #why even learn dutch? #before I realized what an awful mindset this was #and I learned to appreciate my language and now I can see how much magic flows through it #how lyrical the sentences are #I've come to see how many sayings we have and how unique they are and how fun they are to use #Dutch deserves some appreciation #it deserves to have at least its native speakers' respect or love or at the very least fondness #I love dutch with all my heart and I wish I knew it better #I wish there was more literature and more media in it too #cap talks #dutch #dutchblr #flemish

[cappless]

I dont understand the point of making a sci-fi story if the aliens are just going to be humans who have slightly different features. A world of possibilities in your hands and you simply don't use them? Absurd.

#cap talks #alien #sci fi #star trek does not count

[capeta]

I'm hitting artblock hard core rn ALSO I keep forgetting to be more social here instead of Twitter... I need to change that

#cap talks

[thornescratch]

The main reason NHL goalies have face cages on their masks is to keep them healthy; otherwise their teammates would open mouth kiss them with tongue after every win, and the spread of germs would get out of control.

#Welcome to my TED talk #hockey #Caps lb #Washington Capitals #goalies #goalie love