Yeah - I've always been far more fascinated with Venus than Mars. I've written quite a few stories with Venus as the setting (usually in orbit, with a planet-modifying operation - these stories will be in my new collection, if I can just overcome the final hurdle and finish the bloody thing).
That 'mouse on mars' comment just occurred to me given the faked NASA Mars rover images, one of which includes some kind of rodent: https://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/
So whilst I have total doubt about NASA, I'm still seriously hoping that the Russians didn't stoop to faking anything. Personally, although this may be cognitive bias, so to speak, I am going to genuinely believe those Venus images are true (unless someone like Miles Mathis can prove me otherwise). In the words of Fox Mulder - I want to believe.
The issue with the Mars thing is that the atmosphere is so much thinner that any lander would need a massive amount of retro-thrust in order to brake and so on, meaning a seriously large payload, which goes way beyond the mission specifications. Venus is very different indeed, being a very thick atmosphere, so simply using some parachutes, as with the Venera landers, isn't really that difficult. Also, unlike the Mars images, which are far too 'earth-like' (Devon Island I believe) the Venus images are not, they really are 'alien'. And seriously hellish, for that matter.
Where did you get those images by the way - I'm familiar with the classic Venera 13 one (I think it's 13), but the other ones I've never seen before. Do you have links?
Also, from what I know about the Russian psyche, I think they would be ashamed to fake stuff. NASA and Americans, they don't give a shit, but Russians, no. They genuinely care (it's interesting, after all, that music like LoV can exist in a supposedly authoritarian state? Kind of destroys that propaganda, imo).
Anyway - interesting about the origin of their band name - Katrina is telling me they really did call themselves Venera in her world. Given her penchant for shoegaze, and her own record label (PAWS Records) and her Russian husband and children and so on, she is telling me they signed to her label.
Yeah, I know, parallel world stuff just keeps on imposing!
But this LoV set of yours was seriously, seriously beautiful - thank you so much!! Katrina never mentioned them. I'm going to have words with her.
[Evie] I believe young people today use the expression 'omfg' to designate sentiments along the lines of 'wow'.
Katrina didn't tell me about this amazing band. Now she is telling me. She'll be providing a comment in due course. But for now, all I can say is, LoV are astounding and just as good, if not better, than Slowdive. Katrina would say they're better. But she's biased (more on that later).
Totally amazing and totally beautiful - thank you!!!
Yeah - I've always been far more fascinated with Venus than Mars. I've written quite a few stories with Venus as the setting (usually in orbit, with a planet-modifying operation - these stories will be in my new collection, if I can just overcome the final hurdle and finish the bloody thing).
That 'mouse on mars' comment just occurred to me given the faked NASA Mars rover images, one of which includes some kind of rodent: https://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/
So whilst I have total doubt about NASA, I'm still seriously hoping that the Russians didn't stoop to faking anything. Personally, although this may be cognitive bias, so to speak, I am going to genuinely believe those Venus images are true (unless someone like Miles Mathis can prove me otherwise). In the words of Fox Mulder - I want to believe.
The issue with the Mars thing is that the atmosphere is so much thinner that any lander would need a massive amount of retro-thrust in order to brake and so on, meaning a seriously large payload, which goes way beyond the mission specifications. Venus is very different indeed, being a very thick atmosphere, so simply using some parachutes, as with the Venera landers, isn't really that difficult. Also, unlike the Mars images, which are far too 'earth-like' (Devon Island I believe) the Venus images are not, they really are 'alien'. And seriously hellish, for that matter.
Where did you get those images by the way - I'm familiar with the classic Venera 13 one (I think it's 13), but the other ones I've never seen before. Do you have links?
Also, from what I know about the Russian psyche, I think they would be ashamed to fake stuff. NASA and Americans, they don't give a shit, but Russians, no. They genuinely care (it's interesting, after all, that music like LoV can exist in a supposedly authoritarian state? Kind of destroys that propaganda, imo).
Anyway - interesting about the origin of their band name - Katrina is telling me they really did call themselves Venera in her world. Given her penchant for shoegaze, and her own record label (PAWS Records) and her Russian husband and children and so on, she is telling me they signed to her label.
Yeah, I know, parallel world stuff just keeps on imposing!
But this LoV set of yours was seriously, seriously beautiful - thank you so much!! Katrina never mentioned them. I'm going to have words with her.
[Evie] I believe young people today use the expression 'omfg' to designate sentiments along the lines of 'wow'.
Katrina didn't tell me about this amazing band. Now she is telling me. She'll be providing a comment in due course. But for now, all I can say is, LoV are astounding and just as good, if not better, than Slowdive. Katrina would say they're better. But she's biased (more on that later).
Totally amazing and totally beautiful - thank you!!!