Inhospitable (Patreon)

I’ve been researching Venus for my next comic, team. And damn it’s been fun.  

I had the sense of Venus being a pretty inhospitable place, but while studying it in a bit more depth, I also found something I just really wanted to share with you. 

Of course I’d seen pictures that the Russian landers sent back from the surface of Venus in the seventies and early eighties, but incredibly I’d never heard that they also recorded audio. 

And unlike the recent, faintly reedy recordings from Mars, this recording really gave me the creepiest sense of what it might feel like to be on that crushing, scorching, empty world. 

So, if this sounds like a bit of you, I urge you to take two minutes, put on your headphones, close your eyes and just listen. I don’t know if you’ll be impressed like I was, but even if you’re not, it’s still a mind blowing achievement from 40 years ago.