Do not believe the Venusians who assert that there were different plans for this blog from what you are seeing at this moment. After all, this is what their planet looks like:
According to NASA: "Pictured is the view from Venera 14, a robotic Soviet lander which parachuted & air-braked down through the thick Venusian atmosphere in March of 1982. The desolate landscape it saw included flat rocks, vast empty terrain, & a featureless sky above Phoebe Regio near Venus' equator. On the lower left is the spacecraft's penetrometer used to make scientific measurements, while the light piece on the right is part of an ejected lens-cap. Enduring temperatures near 450 degrees Celsius & pressures 75 times that on Earth, the hardened Venera spacecraft lasted only about an hour."
No, the plans for this blog for today almost certainly included a picture of Venus. It was to remind you that despite anything that might dismay you about dealing with human beings on this flawed planet, at some point we built something that landed on a hostile environment - which also happens to be a planet close to us - & it took pictures right before it died. That is fucking extraordinary.
That was today's plan. It wasn't, honestly, but it's fine. It's totally fine.
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