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Venus: The Forgotten Planet
Anonymous Coward from Winnipeg writes "These days many of us are consumed by daily batches of spectacular images from our twin Marsbots and international fleet of Mars-orbiting craft. But we should not forget our sister planet, Venus, which has undergone significant exploration in years past. Don P. Mitchell's home page features an intriguing refinement of Soviet surface images using modern reprocessing techniques. Don also includes a terrific overview of the Soviet Venus exploration program. Complete radar mapping of Venus was provided by Magellan ten years ago. Sadly, according to the Venus Exploration Timeline, only two new missions to Venus are envisioned: ESA's Venus Express (using leftover Mars Express and Rosetta equipment) and JAXA's Planet-C orbiter. Apparently, no landings on Venus are planned - is this another case of humanity losing advanced space travel capability due to neglect, like Apollo?" (We've mentioned Mitchell's reworked images before -- amazing stuff.)
i believe one of the reasons for such neglection
Nice! A word that was considered obsolete in 1913.. Now that's cutting edge!
first thing is first... fixing problems on earth. with that in mind, the space program makes it seem like we're giving up and there's no hope for this planet in the not too distant future.
Then kill yourself, and do us all a favor. Seriously, solving Earth's overpopulation problem begins at home, we're just waiting for someone to show us the way, you anti-life asshole.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
I bet Bill G is already thinking how to make internet and windows 2204 available on Mars.
I would have modded this +1 funny, but you need to discover such wonders of the world as capitalization, "to" does not = "too", that sort of thing. Sorry, it was funny.
When I can trade karma for a blowjob, then I'll give a shit... You know, if you could do that the quality of discussion on Slashdot would increase a thousandfold...
Zhirinovsky about George Bush and debarkation to Mars It is not necessary to joke with Mars. Here other children. This not Iraq, this not Afghanistan. George, your Mars rovers here will break on the part. 250 thousand selected Martians! They will spread everything. They entire planet will pass to one chas! They will explode all your Mars rovers, all your astronauts. George, you dzheday. You stop, blyad', you end, you laser sword hide further to the storage and forget about your dad. We have one mudak, took vengeance for the brother, blyad', and great galactic empire collapsed. And another crank was, he took vengeance for its grand-dad, and great galactic republic collapsed. And you will repeat the same error. You forget dad, dad worked out his. You think about the future of galaxy. It perishes! Your young people escape from your galaxy. There no one wants to live in your galaxy, no one! This barakholka, blyad'. dollar, dollar, dollar... this dirty green paper! Not soul, there is no music, blyad', do not have dzhedayev you. Entire peace listens to to iodine, Ob'- vans -Kennobi, blyad'. festivals, sport, races only on Dantuine: And here, on Mars. They here love force, and they despise you, despise. Your predecessor, blyad', Veyder, blyad', to it shirinku drew off directly in the command destroyer. This is entirely narrower than okhuyeli, blyad'! In the office of Head of The State to it it drew off. This that, galaxy, blyad'? You that do make, blyad'? Chubaka, blyad'! What, nakhuy, emperor? What Galactic Supremacy? Of minetchiki are devils, blyad', masturbators, pidarasy, zoofily, blyad'! George, George! Look Starry Wars! How many corpses, how much blood! And there they killed, and here they killed! 4 you I here tell: look, blyad', what sky, blyad', Ursa Major! Mars - this not Baghdad! This is not kabul! You will never here find water, because we know this people, we know this planet. They some to entire galaxy you send to khuy. Some! Everything else, blyad', fawn before you. They were erected by system in order to you to bow. You with your powerful khrenovoy economy, with your millionth army, with marskhodami, blyad', with the rockets not khuya can make. And you never here will be able to attain victory. All Martians of peace, all East Europe, Maykl Jackson, everything against you. Moscow, Moscow does not want this war, and to you our President this is clear, in Russian, he said: "not to dare to shoot at Mars". It is better together yebanem the star of death. We will find purposes in this system. So many planets, blyad'. you want, Venus nakhuy let us spread, blyad', to the meteoritic ring. To show you our rocket, blyad'? You do want, blyad'? here the weapons, blyad'.. at night our scientists will barely change the gravitational field of the Earth, and entire Mars will be under water. 24 hours, blyad', and by entire your Mars will be under water of Atlantic Pacific Ocean. You with whom do joke, blyad'? You think, blyad'! You did understand, than it did end the Dart Veyder, than it did end Palpatin, everything else? You will complete historical error! Humanity to you will gratefully not be. Forget it, humanity.