{"id":2060,"date":"2014-11-13T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T11:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2014-11-13T06:30:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T11:30:48","slug":"philae-comet-landingtranswarp-beaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"Philae Comet Landing=Transwarp Beaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s rare enough to be legitimately struck by awe and wonder (that people click on so many links promising a dropped jaw proves the hunger for it), but I can\u2019t remember the last time I was so amazed, so impressed with human ingenuity, patience, and resolve, as I am with the European Space Agency&#8217;s successful landing of a craft onto Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2014\/11\/12\/science\/space\/rosetta-philae-comet-landing.html?_r=0\">Check out these photos<\/a>, which hardly seem real, they are so real. Downright Kubrickian. Makes me want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-30022469\">get a tattoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Rosetta spacecraft\u2019s successful ten-year chase of a speeding comet\u2014a 2.5 mile wide chunk of rock and ice traveling at 85,000 mph over 315 million miles from earth\u2014and then <em>landing<\/em> on it, reminds me of this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jxzYTDX8bIg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s rare enough to be legitimately struck by awe and wonder (that people click on so many links promising a dropped jaw proves the hunger for it), but I can\u2019t remember the last time I was so amazed, so impressed with human ingenuity, patience, and resolve, as I am with the European Space Agency&#8217;s successful landing of a craft onto &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}