{"id":33487,"date":"2011-04-03T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/planetary-prank-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-04-03T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:43:16","slug":"planetary-prank-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/planetary-prank-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Planetary prank | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t do practical jokes much anymore — let’s just say that when I was younger, it would frequently happen that this sort of thing got escalated quickly into territory that put large swaths of the population at risk of life and limb — and I almost never do them on the blog.<\/p>

Almost. <\/p>

<\/a>This post on Blastr yesterday<\/a> reminded me of the one time I did, though. It came to me in a flash, pretty much all at once, due to the setting I was in at the time. I took the shots, set everything up, and then sprung it on my readers two years ago on this very day.<\/p>

Of course, you know going in it’s a joke, but I still think it’s funny. And since I’m lazy, I’ll simply point you to the post: Spirit sees phenomenal Martian vista<\/a>.<\/p>

Enjoy. And, of course, April Fools!<\/p>

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