{"id":567,"date":"2009-03-31T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2009-03-31T00:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T07:58:00","slug":"the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2009-03-31_iss1.png\"><\/blockquote >\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:ISS_March_2009.jpg\">wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2009\/03\/29\/sts-119-a-mission-in-pictures\/\">universe today<\/a>, now that the solar panel modules have been added to the as-yet uncompleted <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_space_station\">International Space Station<\/a>, it is the second brightest object in the night sky, next to the moon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2009-03-31_iss2.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2009\/03\/29\/sts-119-a-mission-in-pictures\/\">universe today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Venus has been dethroned, and this is just a sign of things to come. Our children&#8217;s children will look up into a sky filled with artificial satellites, floating space cities twinkling in the twilight.<\/p>\n<p>A lone guitarist, camping on a mild post-global-weirding Saskatchewan winter night, will sing a song about a woman who left him for a life in space. The sky is so bright with habitats, he can hardly pick out her new home. Her muscles, weakened by the lower gravity of the Lagrange-point colonies, will never be able to support earth&#8217;s gravity again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via wikipedia. According to universe today, now that the solar panel modules have been added to the as-yet uncompleted International Space Station, it is the second brightest object in the night sky, next to the moon. via universe today. Venus has been dethroned, and this is just a sign of things to come. Our children&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}