Charlie Sanabria
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Charlie Sanabria
@ChaSanabria
Scientist. In love the universe and the human spirit. Always thirsty for knowledge. Trying to capture a lot of that here: https://t.co/p8h6wmOwP3
Boston, MA Katılım Ağustos 2011
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On this day, in 1975, Venera 9, the first spacecraft to orbit Venus was inserted into Venus’ orbit. Its lander dropped down two days later. The found itself under 90 atmospheres of pressure at 480°C, in an atmosphere rich in toxic gases. Venus suddenly started looking less like the goddess of love and more like the incarnation of hell. One picture was sent back, and the lander operated for 53 minutes before it failed due to the extreme environment.


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Added a few notable events from the Byzantine Empire to the timeline:
see full rez here:
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Sometime in early June in 177 AD, Commodus was proclaimed Augustus (emperor). With him, idiocy had reached the throne after a long line of “Philosopher kings”. His father, Marcus Aurelius, made his biggest mistake by choosing Commodus as his successor; an emperor of un-believable cruelty, who lived in the gladiator school for a time, fighting others and even animals. In on event, he killed 100 tigers with 100 arrows. In another, he fought a hippopotamus, an elephant, and a tiger, unaided and before breakfast. He drank, gambled, and kept a harem of 300 women and 300 boys. He also cross-dressed. Politically, he was caught in a perfect storm of provincial uprising and frontier troubles. Neglecting his responsibilities, he assigned prefects to rule for him instead. These eventually turned on him and assassinated him on December 31st, 192 AD

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