The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places

Venera 13, a Soviet spacecraft, was the first lander to transmit color images from the surface of Venus. Although other landers arrived before and after it, pictures from Venera 13 tend to be more widely circulated because they are in color.

The spacecraft was designed to last about half an hour on Venus’ harsh surface, but sent back data for more than two hours after its landing March 1, 1982.

Since no lander has ventured on to Venus since the 1980s, the Venera program’s images of the surface stand as the best close-up record of the planet today.

“a colony of undersea humans repurpose dopey robots from the pre-electronics age into mech suits for the ocean floor”

“This is gonna sound a little strange, but: You can’t see water. There is no splashing. There’s no nothing. It just felt like I was standing on an alien planet. I felt like I was on the surface of the moon. The water was so clear, it looked like a hazy atmosphere.”

There is a lot to say about quantum mechanics, perhaps the most mysterious idea ever to be contemplated by human beings, but all we need is one simple ( but hard to accept ) fact: How the world appears when we look at it is very different from how it really is.

“The Particle at the End of the Universe –
The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World”
Sean Carroll (via ashramof1)