{"id":8819,"date":"2010-02-14T17:29:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T17:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/not-so-happy-valentine%e2%80%99s-day-love-xkcd-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-02-14T17:29:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T17:29:42","slug":"not-so-happy-valentine%e2%80%99s-day-love-xkcd-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/not-so-happy-valentine%e2%80%99s-day-love-xkcd-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Not-So-Happy Valentine\u2019s Day. Love, xkcd | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/701\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f04be_xkcd_valentine.jpg\" alt=\"xkcd_valentine\" width=\"176\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11509\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Hmmm, not all VDs are happy: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/701\/\">this strip from xkcd<\/a> is a little bit of a downer, but I have a hard time disagreeing with his message. Hover your mouse over the strip to see what he means. <\/p><p><em>This particular strip reminds me of Robert Sheckley&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=cQhke8K9G60C&amp;pg=PA109&amp;lpg=PA109&amp;dq=sheckley+language+love+fond&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=feGRhdub_i&amp;sig=tzALBNI-JwS5jz2e_XhxJY_Iq28&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=4aF1S7fOEISY8AbCooiiCg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=6&amp;ved=0CCAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&amp;q=sheckley%20language%20love%20fond&amp;f=false\">\"The Language of Love\"<\/a>. I have to say, I&rsquo;m rather fond of his writing.<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g47xv85wjRQ6f8rv1G5dv0tFdEI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f04be_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g47xv85wjRQ6f8rv1G5dv0tFdEI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f04be_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\/e592b_2A4TKKeGDoU\" 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\/e592b_Pt9wiHlKmII\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, not all VDs are happy: this strip from xkcd is a little bit of a downer, but I have a hard time disagreeing with his message. Hover your mouse over the strip to see what he means. This particular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/not-so-happy-valentine%e2%80%99s-day-love-xkcd-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-8819","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\/8819"}],"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=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}