The tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars. It has a height of 25 km, Mount Everest is ‘only’ 8.8 km tall.
Olympus Mons is wild. It’s gigantic, but it’s so gentle a slope that you could drive up to the peak.
It’s so big because it’s a shield volcano: there’s a hotspot under it where magma is pushing up.
But since Mars has no active tectonics, that hot spot has been under the same spot for hundreds of millions of years. On earth, the tectonic plates would have slowly shifted over that time, and it would have become a mountain range, not one big mountain. On a dead planet like Mars, it just slowly builds up every time it erupts, so it’s the biggest mountain in the solar system.
And it probably hasn’t stopped growing! The most recent eruption is estimated at 2 million years ago, but geologically that’s recent enough that it might still be active, and may erupt again someday.
1987’s Hellblazer Vol.1 #1 cover by cover artist Dave McKean.
Fun Fact : “The original title for this series was Hellraiser, but it was changed prior to publication so as to not be confused with the 1988 Clive Barker horror film, Hellraiser.”
sorry todd I straight up don’t think power armor in fallout is cool like even conceptually it just doesn’t make sense for the protagonist to have any it requires too much logistics and support to keep in working order like any other military vehicles and I’m not really sure how you would even go about fielding it as a lone wanderer on an open ended adventure instead of as a soldier with a whole squad of mechanics and engineers to maintain it and don’t even get me started on how much fallout 4 completely fucking fails to fulfill that fantasy either
May as well give me a fucking fighter jet since it’s all useless without a globalized industrial economy and supply chains a mile long touching every part of it
Its funny because like the power armor was a symbol of a bunch of facists who wanted to hoard technology instead of using it to better the world in the og games
as a symbol of fascism it works really well because it’s cool and intimidating on the surface but requires far more effort and resources to field that would more effectively be spent on almost literally anything else which is an extremely rare bit of ludonarrative harmony from Bethesda because my god do I never want to actually go through the effort of getting it to the place where it would be most useful once I encounter a situation that would benefit from me being in power armor
