{"id":38450,"date":"2011-08-21T15:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/none-so-blind-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-08-21T15:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:45:20","slug":"none-so-blind-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/none-so-blind-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"None so blind | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I sit, I squint at my computer LCD monitor, so I put on my prescription glasses to see better. I should’ve put them on earlier, because now I have a headache, so I take a couple of ibuprofens with a glass of fresh clean water from my tap.<\/p>

I stretch my back a bit because it’s sore. I have a herniated disk — I found out last week when I got an MRI — and I’ll be going to the doctor in a few days to see if I need surgery, or perhaps just a cortisone injection to reduce the swelling. A friend said stuff like that hurts more when it rains, but I looked online and found out that’s a myth. I checked the weather anyway and the satellite view shows it’s pretty clear.<\/p>

But man, that reminds me. I need a new computer — the latest models are so fast, and use so much less energy — and it sure would make browsing easier. That weather page took forever to download! At least five or six seconds.<\/p>

The news page is even worse. And when it finally downloads, what do I see? Some scientist complaining that their budget is going ...<\/p>

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