{"id":36760,"date":"2011-07-02T16:59:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/last-chance-before-the-next-bonus-riddle\/"},"modified":"2011-07-02T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T16:59:16","slug":"last-chance-before-the-next-bonus-riddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/last-chance-before-the-next-bonus-riddle.php","title":{"rendered":"Last Chance Before The Next Bonus Riddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>UPDATE:&nbsp; Solved by Alex at 12:06<br><\/strong><\/span><\/p><p>Here we are, down to the wire on the last riddle before the bonus  riddle.&nbsp; Remember, it&rsquo;s running Monday, July 4th.&nbsp; Although I&rsquo;m sure  everybody knows the rules for the bonus riddle by now, I&rsquo;ll run through  them again in case you tuned in to the riddles recently.<\/p><ul><li>Tom and I will post the bonus riddle at noon CDT, July 4th.<\/li><li>Guesses on the bonus riddle will be by email to Tom or Marian.<\/li><li>You will have 24 hours to submit your guesses; from noon CDT Monday July 4th, until noon CDT Tuesday July 5th.<\/li><li> You get three guesses.<\/li><li>Comments will be closed on the bonus riddle until after the  submission deadline.<\/li><li>The winner will be the first person to submit the correct answer.&nbsp;     If nobody solves the riddle by noon CDT July 5th, it will be  opened    for everybody to give it a shot.<\/li><li>Tom will have the final say in any controversy.<\/li><\/ul><p>Today&rsquo;s  riddle is your last chance to get on the list for Monday&rsquo;s bonus  riddle, if you haven&rsquo;t already done so.&nbsp; Now, for the fun stuff.&nbsp; Your  answer is once again found in the real world.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3015e_southern-constellations.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8943 \" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3015e_southern-constellations.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"366\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Don't go for the obvious - that's too easy<\/p><\/div><p>Our ancestors probably noticed this.<\/p><p>They were certainly aware of it by 500 years ago.<\/p><p>It holds an important place in Australian Aboriginal astronomy.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b5b88_one-ugly-bird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8944 \" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b5b88_one-ugly-bird.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"420\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Behold - this is one ugly bird.<\/p><\/div><p>If you visit Cancun in the late winter, you will see this.<\/p><p>Although thought of as fairly innocuous to most cultures, there is one which views this with fear.<\/p><p>Not prominent in SciFi, it does feature in one important work.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b5b88_taken-on-ISS-exp-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8945\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b5b88_taken-on-ISS-exp-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>NASA image<\/p><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Okay!&nbsp; Nice and short today, but you guys are good.&nbsp; I will say this;&nbsp;  pay attention to the image clues.&nbsp; It seems some of us are ignoring the  image clues in favor of the written clues.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m in the comments, as  usual, and looking forward to your guesses.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b5b88_spider-wat-dat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8946\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b5b88_spider-wat-dat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"295\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE:&nbsp; Solved by Alex at 12:06Here we are, down to the wire on the last riddle before the bonus riddle.&nbsp; Remember, it&rsquo;s running Monday, July 4th.&nbsp; Although I&rsquo;m sure everybody knows the rules for the bonus riddle by now, I&rsquo;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/last-chance-before-the-next-bonus-riddle.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-36760","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\/36760"}],"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=36760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}