{"id":35769,"date":"2011-05-28T16:59:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/your-regularly-scheduled-program\/"},"modified":"2011-05-28T16:59:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T16:59:13","slug":"your-regularly-scheduled-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/your-regularly-scheduled-program.php","title":{"rendered":"Your Regularly Scheduled Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:  SOLVED by Jeff at 12:11
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BOO!  Ha!  Scared you, didn’t I?  Oh admit it… you’re shaking in your boots.<\/p>

Happy Saturday everybody.  I hope your world is moving along as it should.  I’m behind again in my posts, but no worries.  I’ll catch up with myself eventually.<\/p>

The riddles have been dealing with the “real world” for a while, and today is no exception.  Strap on your seat belt, because the answer to today’s riddle is one wild ride.<\/p>

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Image by Sam Spalding<\/p><\/div>

Something happens.<\/p>

When it happens, it’s intensely interesting…<\/p>

…if you happen to be very, very far away from it.<\/p>

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NASA\/Hubble image - oh quit whining... you've seen this before<\/p><\/div>

Due to this event, something else is produced.<\/p>

It’s even more interesting.<\/p>

Again, if you happen to be very far away.<\/p>

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Image by J Dawson, this is exactly what it looks like<\/p><\/div>

If we are too close, we will have no warning.<\/p>

This is a modern discovery, made because we’re suspicious of our neighbors.<\/p>

Fortunately, this is very rare.<\/p>

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Ew, nasty. This is smog. Yeah, it's related. Image found on PhotoBucket<\/p><\/div>

We may have already suffered a brush with this thing.<\/p>

Just once.<\/p>

Some suspect it to have been the sole cause of one of the most massive extinction events.<\/p>

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Image by Marvin Cyder<\/p><\/div>

There is no defense against this.<\/p>

You don’t ever want to see this close up.<\/p>

That said, it happens on Earth all the time.<\/p>

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Image found on PhotoBucket<\/p><\/div>

Are you puzzled?  Good.  You know the answer to this, I know you do.  Don’t look at the clues and take the first obvious jump.  I’ll be lurking in the comments to see how you do.<\/p>

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UPDATE:  SOLVED by Jeff at 12:11BOO!  Ha!  Scared you, didn’t I?  Oh admit it… you’re shaking in your boots.Happy Saturday everybody.  I hope your world is moving along as it should.  I’m behind again in my posts, but no worries.  … 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-35769","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\/35769"}],"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=35769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}