{"id":572,"date":"2008-07-18T03:56:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T08:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=572"},"modified":"2008-07-18T03:56:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T08:56:44","slug":"its-like-symmetry-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/572","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Like, Symmetry, Dude!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/82477\">Hubble Kaleidoscope Finds Evidence Of Space Looking All Crazy<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With their unprecedented resolution, the latest images from the new kaleidoscope reveal that space, once thought to be isotropic, is actually continuously expanding, unfolding, and rearranging in a series of freaky patterns,&#8221; said astronomer Douglas Stetler, head of the Space Kaleidoscope Science Institute in Baltimore. &#8220;It&#8217;s an exciting time for the field of astrokaleidoscopics, or anyone interested in the vast, wacked-out nature of space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Despite excitement over the discovery that space is all crazy-looking, a number of legislators have threatened to cut funding for NASA&#8217;s kaleidoscopic program. An outspoken critic of the agency, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said she hopes NASA scientists don&#8217;t just use the kaleidoscope a few times and then lose interest and never touch it again, like they did with the Brookhaven Neutrino Spirograph, Fermilab&#8217;s Particle Slingshot, and the Very Large Slip &#8216;n Slide Array in New Mexico.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, it should be noted that they still continue to play around with the boxes those devices came in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hubble Kaleidoscope Finds Evidence Of Space Looking All Crazy &#8220;With their unprecedented resolution, the latest images from the new kaleidoscope reveal that space, once thought to be isotropic, is actually continuously expanding, unfolding, and rearranging in a series of freaky &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/572\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-physics","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}