{"id":35308,"date":"2011-05-14T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/our-saturday-play-date\/"},"modified":"2011-05-14T16:58:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T16:58:52","slug":"our-saturday-play-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/our-saturday-play-date.php","title":{"rendered":"Our Saturday Play Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:  SOLVED by John at 12:12
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Can you believe it?  May is already two weeks old.  I’m already looking forward to Autumn, my favorite time of year.  It’s about here that I start dreaming of cold, rainy days.  Do you remember the smell of burning leaves?  I associate that with Fall, although you never smell it anymore.  I guess it’s a sign of age, to look around and wonder, “what happened?”<\/p>

Since I’m not getting any younger, I think I had better start today’s riddle… before I forget what it’s about!  You’re in reality today, but you know; reality can get pretty weird.<\/p>

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NASA\/ESA Hubble Boomerang Nebula<\/p><\/div>

You think of today’s answer as a “thing” of sorts, but it isn’t.  Not really.<\/p>

It’s something of a concept.<\/p>

It’s defined more by what isn’t there, than what is.<\/p>

You could think of this as a destination, although it isn’t really a place.<\/p>

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States of Matter - old education model <\/p><\/div>

We can see the goal, but we’ve never reached it.<\/p>

This has an opposite.<\/p>

We can’t get to that, either.<\/p>

When you get really, REALLY close to this, something weird happens to matter.<\/p>

We’ve been really, REALLY close.<\/p>

This has made numerous appearances in SciFi, and can make for some graphically interesting special effects.<\/p>

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NASA\/JPL Galileo - the lovely Europa<\/p><\/div>

And there you have it.  Hopefully this will give you a moment’s thought.  I’m in the comments, as usual.<\/p>

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Awwwwwwww!<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:  SOLVED by John at 12:12Can you believe it?  May is already two weeks old.  I’m already looking forward to Autumn, my favorite time of year.  It’s about here that I start dreaming of cold, rainy days.  Do you remember … Continue reading →<\/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-35308","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\/35308"}],"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=35308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}