{"id":489,"date":"2009-11-08T05:18:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:18:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:18:07","slug":"take-me-out-to-the-ballpark-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/take-me-out-to-the-ballpark-on-mars.php","title":{"rendered":"Take Me Out to the Ballpark &#8211; On Mars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Tt2NuKGJASc\/SvQODUa5mQI\/AAAAAAAABCk\/BBAqp8AG7jU\/s1600-h\/imagine-Mars-logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0eade_imagine-Mars-logo.jpg\" alt=\"NASA and JPL have partnered with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum to host a workshop for kids on Sat., Nov. 7, in Cooperstown, N.Y\" title=\"NASA and JPL have partnered with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum to host a workshop for kids on Sat., Nov. 7, in Cooperstown, N.Y\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400957303307999490\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Students in fourth through seventh grade will work to create the ultimate baseball experience \"<a href=\"http:\/\/spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\/\"><span>on Mars<\/span><\/a>,\" even designing the rules for how to play a game on the Red Planet. <span>NASA <\/span>and <span>JPL <\/span>have partnered with the <span>National Baseball Hall<\/span> of Fame and Museum to host a workshop for kids on Sat., Nov. 7, in Cooperstown, N.Y.<p>At the <span>Imagine Mars<\/span> workshop, kids will learn about the Martian environment and baseball. They will create uniforms, stadium concepts and rules for playing a baseball game, taking into consideration things like <span>Mars<\/span>' gravity, which is 38 percent that found on <a href=\"http:\/\/internationalspacemission.blogspot.com\/\"><span>Earth<\/span><\/a>. This means that if you weigh 100 kilograms (220 pounds) on Earth you would only weigh about 38 kilograms (83 pounds) on <span>Mars<\/span>. <span>Mars scientist<\/span> <span>Jim Bell<\/span> from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., who works on <span><a href=\"http:\/\/spacestationinfo.blogspot.com\/\">NASA<\/a>'s Mars Exploration Rover mission<\/span>, will be a guest speaker.<\/p><p>For more information, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.baseballhalloffame.org\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20091005&amp;content_id=7338824&amp;vkey=hof_pr\">news release<\/a> from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.<\/p><p>More information on the Mars Exploration Rover mission is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/home\/index.html\">http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/home\/index.html<\/a> . <\/p><\/div><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0eade_1205796008215741128-527169514258557348?l=spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in fourth through seventh grade will work to create the ultimate baseball experience \"on Mars,\" even designing the rules for how to play a game on the Red Planet. NASA and JPL have partnered with the National Baseball Hall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/take-me-out-to-the-ballpark-on-mars.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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-station"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}