{"id":1225,"date":"2006-11-12T10:53:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T21:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1225"},"modified":"2006-11-13T00:37:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T11:37:30","slug":"1225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1225","title":{"rendered":"Day #9,833"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hubble took a million-second exposure of a small bit of the night sky (one tenth of the moon&#8217;s diameter) that appears uttlerly black\/empty to earth-based telescopes, and found about <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2004\/07\/image\/a\/format\/web_print\">10,000 flash new galaxies<\/a>. <small>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/space\/How_Hubble_Killed_God\" title=\"somehow this doesn't strike me as killing God\">Digg<\/a>]<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small style=\"color:red\">GIVEAWAY:<\/small> mhjb.co.nz\/blog offers the first interested commentor a <small>SPECIAL PRIZE<\/small>, to wit, Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s 1994 novel <em>Antarctica<\/em>. Some say it&#8217;s epic, but it&#8217;s not really, it&#8217;s just big, almost 700 pages. Big and good. Like lots of his books it makes me want to work hard and collaborate and start\/join a co-op and be a scientist or bureaucrat and do (more\/better) drugs. There&#8217;s this underground party at the south pole which is by itself worth the price of the book ($12 at Arty Bees). The prize has a catch though: you have to agree to give away the book (with or without the tootling of trumpets) when you finish it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntwrightpage.com\/Wright_War_On_Terror.htm\">Tom Wright on the War on Terror<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blender.org\/cms\/Images.151.0.html\">Gallery of images rendered on freeward Blender 3D modeller<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hubble took a million-second exposure of a small bit of the night sky (one tenth of the moon&#8217;s diameter) that appears uttlerly black\/empty to earth-based telescopes, and found about 10,000 flash new galaxies. [via Digg] GIVEAWAY: mhjb.co.nz\/blog offers the first interested commentor a SPECIAL PRIZE, to wit, Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s 1994 novel Antarctica. Some say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-link","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}