{"id":6486,"date":"2014-11-05T07:26:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T14:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=6486"},"modified":"2014-11-05T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T14:26:12","slug":"space-nerd-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/05\/space-nerd-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Nerd Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Whenever I miss a shot with a sci-fi weapon, I say 'Apollo retroreflector' really fast, just in case.\" alt=\"Turnabout\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/turnabout.png\" \/>http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/turnabout.png<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, this is very funny. And after the week we had last week in space-travel news, a little levity is called for.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, all right, for those who don&#8217;t get it: The Apollo retroreflectors are essentially mirrors that were left behind on the lunar surface by the Apollo astronauts. If you bounce a laser beam off them, you can measure very precisely the distance from the Earth to the Moon. They&#8217;re also a nice refutation for all the crackpot theories that the Apollo missions were faked, because the mirrors <em>are<\/em> there, and their locations are known. If you can get a hold of a powerful enough laser, you too can do a little rangefinding of your own. And if the retroreflectors weren&#8217;t placed there by astronauts, where did they come from, hmmmm?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/turnabout.png Trust me, this is very funny. And after the week we had last week in space-travel news, a little levity is called for. (Oh, all right, for those who don&#8217;t get it: The Apollo retroreflectors are essentially mirrors that were left behind on the lunar surface by the Apollo astronauts. If you bounce a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}