{"id":662,"date":"2009-11-07T16:49:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T16:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2009-11-07T16:49:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T16:49:59","slug":"i-spy-with-my-little-eye%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i-spy-with-my-little-eye%e2%80%a6.php","title":{"rendered":"I Spy With My Little Eye\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update:&nbsp; <span>SOLVED!!<\/span><\/p><p>How about a riddle for your Saturday?&nbsp; I&rsquo;ll give you some clues, and then post the answer in the comment section tomorrow morning (or sooner, if someone guesses the correct answer).&nbsp; To be fair to everybody, the answer will be something well known that you will have been familiar with since your childhood.&nbsp; Ready?<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/59f8b_220px-Question_mark.svg.png\" alt=\"File:Question mark.svg\" width=\"132\" height=\"231\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>Although composed of several bodies, this is referred to as one object.<\/p><p>It is visible to the naked eye; in fact, it is an ancient eye test, and can still be used to measure &ldquo;perfect&rdquo; (20\/20) vision.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/59f8b_481px-Snellen_chart.svg.png\" alt=\"File:Snellen chart.svg\" width=\"289\" height=\"359\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>This object is often used as a guidepost.<\/p><p>It is mentioned in Homer&rsquo;s <em>Iliad<\/em>.<\/p><p>It is visible in the northern skies (north of latitude 25 degrees south) all year.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/59f8b_800px-Red_and_green_aurora.jpg\" alt=\"File:Red and green aurora.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"358\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>In about 50,000 years, it will be gone.<\/p><p>Do you know to what I am referring?&nbsp; The first person to guess correctly can choose the subject of my next post (must be about astronomy;&nbsp; must be researchable).<\/p><p>Good luck!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update:&nbsp; SOLVED!!How about a riddle for your Saturday?&nbsp; I&rsquo;ll give you some clues, and then post the answer in the comment section tomorrow morning (or sooner, if someone guesses the correct answer).&nbsp; To be fair to everybody, the answer will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i-spy-with-my-little-eye%e2%80%a6.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-662","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\/662"}],"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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}