{"id":29724,"date":"2010-10-24T08:17:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T08:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/%d7%90%d7%a1%d7%98%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%9e%d7%99%d7%94-%d7%a8%d7%a2%d7%94-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-10-24T08:17:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T08:17:47","slug":"%d7%90%d7%a1%d7%98%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%9e%d7%99%d7%94-%d7%a8%d7%a2%d7%94-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/%d7%90%d7%a1%d7%98%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%9e%d7%99%d7%94-%d7%a8%d7%a2%d7%94-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"?????????? ??? | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes get requests from people asking if they can translate something I&rsquo;ve written into a different language. The answer is usually yes, if they provide a link back to the original post. The funny part is not knowing if they&rsquo;ve done a good job or not!<\/p><p>So there&rsquo;s a certain trust involved, I suppose, because I don&rsquo;t speak too many languages. And it&rsquo;s even harder if they don&rsquo;t use vowels! But that hasn&rsquo;t stopped Yoav Landsman from translating some of my posts into Hebrew. He did three: <\/p><p>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nicecriticalmass.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/blog-post_10.html\">Just in case you need reminding how nice place to live Earth is<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nicecriticalmass.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/30.html\">30 years, a half million asteroids<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nicecriticalmass.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/blog-post_20.html\">Do rainbow clouds foretell earthquakes?<\/a> (also on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptics.org.il\/blog\/do-rainbow-clouds-fortell-earthquakes\">Spinoza<\/a>, the Israeli skeptics community website).<\/p><p>I can actually puzzle through some of the pronunciation of the words phonetically, but that&rsquo;s about it; my knowledge of Hebrew is limited to probably fewer than two dozen words. But I&rsquo;d like to thank Yoav for helping me reach a population that I might otherwise never reach. L&rsquo;chaim!<\/p><p> <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KJLLVJqHgG42rt-qjcqZ5A5QV9w\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/93112_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KJLLVJqHgG42rt-qjcqZ5A5QV9w\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/93112_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\/93112_JR9zVKA_C5g\" 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\/93112_kj07Y7XSF1o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes get requests from people asking if they can translate something I&rsquo;ve written into a different language. The answer is usually yes, if they provide a link back to the original post. The funny part is not knowing if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/%d7%90%d7%a1%d7%98%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%9e%d7%99%d7%94-%d7%a8%d7%a2%d7%94-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-29724","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\/29724"}],"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=29724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}