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Coming down at "145 miles per hour-plus" and a "mass of just under 500 kg and 1-meter size" I would imagine there are just pieces out there now.
by rhcom2 1y ago
Coming down at "145 miles per hour-plus" and a "mass of just under 500 kg and 1-meter size" I would imagine there are just pieces out there now.
- SequoiaHope 1y agoApparently it was quite dense as to be able to survive the Venetian atmosphere so there has been speculation it may stay somewhat intact.
- rhcom2 1y agoIt was suppose to come down with a parachute but fingers crossed.
- perihelions 1y ago- "Venetian" That one means "having to do with Venice". Of Venus would be "Venusian", "Venereal" (yes, really), or "Cytherean". Or, one of a dozen others—it's a Greek god-name; there's millennia of culture to drawn on. There's an entire Wikipedia entry devoted to this adjective question, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytherean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytherean
- SequoiaHope 1y agoOh right! I did know that but typo’d it thanks.
- ForOldHack 1y agoAny thoughts about sunken vs sank?
- squigz 1y agoThat Italian atmosphere is really rough!
- dotancohen 1y agoSmells worse than the venereal atmosphere the craft was designed for.
- deepsun 1y agoThat's nothing compared to Venus. There it's 500C with sulfuric atmosphere.
- pinewurst 1y agoA lot like New Delhi...
- bell-cot 1y agoAnd ~1,300 psi at the surface, and a few other features. On the upside - undeveloped property is readily available, and quite affordable.
- perihelions 1y ago- "On the upside - undeveloped property is readily available, and quite affordable". It's a dry heat anyway.
- estreeper 1y agoIt wouldn’t be HN if your joke wasn’t met with pedantry, so I’ll mention the heat and pressure at the surface means the atmosphere is a supercritical fluid of 96.5% carbon dioxide and 3.5% nitrogen. Buyers should have all the facts
- sph 1y ago> quite affordable The commute to there is the real problem