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fionaapplerocks · 6 months

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Fiona Apple 1997-12-05 Los Angeles, CA [x]

#Fiona Apple #full concert #1997 #video #gif #KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas #universal city

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onthisdayts · 1 year

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ON THIS DAY — February 7, 2012 — 11 years ago

"The Lorax" Press Conference in Universal City, California

#onthisday #taylor swift #taylurking #tswiftedit #2012 #february 2012 #events #universal city #california

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oldshowbiz · 7 months

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James Stewart Avenue

#franchise #universal city #kliph walking tour #James Stewart

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bobdylan-n-jonimitchell · 2 years

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Joni Mitchell played a series of concerts at the Universal Amphitheater in August of 1974—recordings of which would comprise the album “Miles of Aisles” (photos by Henry Diltz).

#Joni Mitchell #Miles of Aisles Tour #Miles of Aisles #Universal Amphitheater #Universal City #CA #1974 #1970s #Henry Diltz

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thewildbelladonna · 2 years

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Stevie and Christine at the MTV Video Music Awards at Universal Amphitheatre in Universal City, California, September 11th, 1987.

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snapbackdad · 2 months

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View of the universal Hollywood backlot with Warner bros and Disney in the distance

#southern california #Los Angeles #universal city #universal studios #universal studios hollywood

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brittanymurphymissu · 10 months

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Teen Choice Awards, 2003. ✨

As part of their schedule of engagements to promote Uptown Girls, Brittany and Dakota attended many events, including the Teen Choice Awards, where they had the opportunity to take the stage to present Adam Sandler with his “Choice Hissy Fit” award! 😍 I love that!

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jimmarsden-fuckingblog · 1 year

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Amazon Freevee's "Jury Duty" Finale Celebration.

James Marsden (L) and Ronald Gladden attend Amazon Freevee's "Jury Duty" Finale Celebration at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville on April 25, 2023 in Universal City, California. (Photo by JC Olivera/Getty Images)

#jury duty #james marsden #ronald gladden #los angeles #California #tv series #show #universal city

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deep-space-netwerk · 9 months

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So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

#space #space history #venus #NASA #Venera #spost #I will talk all day about venus #ask me about venus floating sky cities #unpopular opinion venus > mars #this is probably my favorite space history story #the surface of venus is made of lens caps #don't try to tell me the universe doesn't have a sense of humor #well #I guess its more that people have a sense of humor and we happen to live in the universe

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simonh · 3 months

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Found Slide 1969 by Thomas Hawk Via Flickr: date stamped on slide, January 1969

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reasonsforhope · 2 months

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Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.