{"id":40223,"date":"2011-10-08T16:55:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/riddle%e2%80%99s-up\/"},"modified":"2011-10-08T16:55:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T16:55:34","slug":"riddle%e2%80%99s-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/riddle%e2%80%99s-up.php","title":{"rendered":"Riddle\u2019s Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:  Solved by Rob at 12:01 CDT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

How has your week been?  Are you up, alert, and bright-eyed?  If not, go grab a cup of caffeine real quick… we’ll wait for you.<\/p>

Got your caffeine ready to go?  I think you’ll enjoy today’s riddle; I enjoyed constructing it, and usually if a riddle leaves me somewhat *blah*, you don’t get too worked up about it, either.<\/p>

Today’s riddle answer is an event:<\/p>

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This event occurred in the 20th Century.<\/p>

It was big, but not the biggest we’ve ever seen.<\/p>

In fact, it could have gone completely unnoticed at the time.<\/p>

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Oh, come now. You know what this is.<\/p><\/div>

There was little scientific curiosity about this event when it occurred.<\/p>

In fact, it wasn’t even investigated until over a decade had passed.<\/p>

That’s amazing because events of this nature have caused major problems in the past, and will cause major problems in the future.<\/p>

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And you know this image, also.<\/p><\/div>

You’ll often see mention of this, in pseudo-science, popular media, and scientific inquiry.<\/p>

This event destroys, but that’s only one half of the coin.<\/p>

Life as we know it probably wouldn’t be possible without events just like this one.<\/p>

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The goddess of beauty. Standing on the surface of another planet.<\/p><\/div>

Events like this were more common in the past.<\/p>

It happens everywhere.<\/p>

You see something like it in miniature all the time.<\/p>

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Castle Bravo<\/p><\/div>

And there you have it.  This riddle requires a specific answer, not one in general.  For instance, if the answer was the Sun, I wouldn’t accept “a star” for an answer.  Good luck!<\/p>

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Tremble in fear, Human! I have you in my clutches. RAWR!<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:  Solved by Rob at 12:01 CDTHow has your week been?  Are you up, alert, and bright-eyed?  If not, go grab a cup of caffeine real quick… we’ll wait for you.Got your caffeine ready to go?  I think you’ll enjoy … 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-40223","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\/40223"}],"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=40223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}