{"id":4633,"date":"2010-01-07T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/%e2%80%99tis-a-bit-nippy-guvnah-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:00:01","slug":"%e2%80%99tis-a-bit-nippy-guvnah-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/%e2%80%99tis-a-bit-nippy-guvnah-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"\u2019tis a bit nippy, guvnah! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, it&rsquo;s about -15 C outside where I live in Boulder, and even the snow looks like it&rsquo;s shivering. So I&rsquo;m not sure if I&rsquo;m happy to share the grief or feel badly about the weather for folks in the UK, who generally don&rsquo;t get (metric, I suppose) tons of snow. But then I saw <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/gallery\/?2010007-0107\/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.1km.jpg\">this image<\/a> from NASA&rsquo;s Earth observing Terra satellite:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/gallery\/?2010007-0107\/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.1km.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6e6e1_4254627068_8c2dd190e3_o.jpg\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Holy Haleakala, that&rsquo;s <em>gorgeous!<\/em> I won&rsquo;t say I&rsquo;m exactly glad they got lots of snow, but still, wow. Sorry, my anglic friends, but your suffering has produced this stunning beauty. <\/p><p>The image was taken on January 7, 2010 at around noon local time. The image above has 1 km pixels, but you can also grab the image in higher-res <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/gallery\/?2010007-0107\/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.500m.jpg\">500 meter<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/gallery\/?2010007-0107\/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.250m.jpg\">250 meter<\/a> versions, too.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yg2JdXK8a6PXrcmx-nf6Psg-IkY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6e6e1_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yg2JdXK8a6PXrcmx-nf6Psg-IkY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6e6e1_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1f13a_ee4iKXsYRBg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1f13a_RW_n7qfhFw8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, it&rsquo;s about -15 C outside where I live in Boulder, and even the snow looks like it&rsquo;s shivering. So I&rsquo;m not sure if I&rsquo;m happy to share the grief or feel badly about the weather for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/%e2%80%99tis-a-bit-nippy-guvnah-bad-astronomy.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-4633","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\/4633"}],"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=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}