{"id":43,"date":"2006-04-12T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/12\/43\/"},"modified":"2006-04-12T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:36:12","slug":"43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"To the moon, Alice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right&#8211;the MOON!<\/p>\n<p>Well, an unmanned probe, anyway. <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/story?id=1827124&#038;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">In 2008.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two cool things here:<\/p>\n<p>1) It&#8217;s a mission to prepare for an eventual manned mission. If I can&#8217;t see dudes walk on Mars before I bite the big one, I&#8217;ll take walking on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>2) The cloud of dust kicked up by the probe crashing on the moon should be visible to amateur astronomers. Never have I wanted a Toys R Us telescope more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/3b\/Portal.gif\" alt=\"wiki\" \/><strong>WikiWikiWhack:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moon\" target=\"_blank\">The Moon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_program\" target=\"_blank\">Project Apollo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right&#8211;the MOON! Well, an unmanned probe, anyway. In 2008. Two cool things here: 1) It&#8217;s a mission to prepare for an eventual manned mission. If I can&#8217;t see dudes walk on Mars before I bite the big one, I&#8217;ll take walking on the moon. 2) The cloud of dust kicked up by the probe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}