{"id":30423,"date":"2010-11-07T09:12:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/food-in-space-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:01","slug":"food-in-space-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/food-in-space-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"Food In Space | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s note: Crap. I wrote this post within milliseconds after the first of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/11\/04\/amazing-close-ups-of-comet-hartley-2\/\">these awesome images<\/a> came out, but somehow didn&rsquo;t publish it. Now they are <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2010\/11\/04\/comet-flyby-yields-close-ups-of-the-lumpy-icy-hartley-2\/\">all over the place<\/a>, and the message is ancient news in internet-time. But the science is timeless!<\/em><\/p><p>This <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SciWriAlicia\/status\/29674638888\">tweet<\/a> by Alicia Chang says it all: &ldquo;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/103P\/Hartley\">Comet Hartley 2<\/a> looks like a peanut.&rdquo;<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/epoxi\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f4710_495272main_epoxi-1-427.jpg\" alt=\"Comet Hartley 2\" width=\"427\" height=\"226\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5720\"><\/a><\/p><p>This is the first close-up image from a fly-by of the comet by NASA&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_Impact_%28spacecraft%29\">Deep Impact<\/a> mission. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/11\/101104-science-space-comet-hartley-2-nasa-epoxi-deep-impact\/\">Expect more coming in<\/a>. Despite the delicious appearance, however, it wouldn&rsquo;t be prudent to take a bite; the comet is spewing out cyanide.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LGwRjYbRSF3mtEt90V4ko6GGpUs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f4710_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LGwRjYbRSF3mtEt90V4ko6GGpUs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bbbbd_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\/bbbbd_ePvFClWJHDM\" 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\/bbbbd_kAMdMWUWtcE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s note: Crap. I wrote this post within milliseconds after the first of these awesome images came out, but somehow didn&rsquo;t publish it. Now they are all over the place, and the message is ancient news in internet-time. But the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/food-in-space-cosmic-variance.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-30423","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\/30423"}],"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=30423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}