{"id":11802,"date":"2010-03-13T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-tweeting-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-13T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T14:28:12","slug":"space-tweeting-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/space-tweeting-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Space tweeting | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, International Space Station astronaut Soichi Noguchi <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/02\/22\/pic-of-the-shuttle-reentry-from-space\/\">took an amazing picture of Endeavour re-entering Earth&rsquo;s atmosphere<\/a>. <\/p><p>He has been busily snapping away at the Earth and posting the pictures on his Twitter feed. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Astro_Soichi\">You really should be following him<\/a>!<\/p><p>Recently, he unknowingly did me a big favor by posting <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/170ftn\">this incredible shot of Egypt<\/a>:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/170ftn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/faa17_astro_soichi_egypt.jpg\" alt=\"astro_soichi_egypt\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12722\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Yes, those are actual pyramids in the picture! Amazing. And by doing that, he made it very easy for me to answer the question I still get about once a month from people: \"Is the Great Wall of China the only man-made object you can see from space?\". <\/p><p>I already knew the answer is no; you can see cities easily, as well as agricultural formations, big roads, and more. But this one shot makes it very plain and simple: yes, humans have made quite an impact on the planet, and you can easily see it from space.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2LtO7GUjhA-IdY2aBEIU_v8Hsqk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/faa17_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2LtO7GUjhA-IdY2aBEIU_v8Hsqk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/faa17_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/faa17__pgRGWaAKg8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c7d01_7yOKO8XQ60o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, International Space Station astronaut Soichi Noguchi took an amazing picture of Endeavour re-entering Earth&rsquo;s atmosphere. He has been busily snapping away at the Earth and posting the pictures on his Twitter feed. You really should be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/space-tweeting-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}