{"id":15473,"date":"2007-05-24T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/05\/scientific-bits-seadevils-severed-arms-stephen-hawking.html"},"modified":"2007-05-24T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T08:04:07","slug":"scientific_bits_seadevils_severed_arms_ste-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/scientific_bits_seadevils_severed_arms_ste-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific bits: Seadevils, severed arms, &amp; Stephen Hawking"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Air &amp; Space<\/em> has the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/issues\/2007\/december-january\/FEATURE-FirstPhoto.php\">the first images from space<\/a> (starting in 1946), taken from captured German V-2 rockets.&#160; Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/issues\/2006\/october-november\/images\/V2-panorama.jpg\">large panoramic shot<\/a> from 1948. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/05\/13361.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Having moved on just a bit since then, NASA &amp; the USGS have created a series called <a href=\"http:\/\/earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov\/atlas.html\">Earth as Art<\/a> (this shot featuring the Anti-Atlast Mountains; think we could get Google Earth to provide sponsorship &amp; have them renamed the Anti-Alias Mountains?).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/before-deluge.html\">Before The Deluge<\/a> provides vintage renderings (c.1872) of Earth&#8217;s past.&#160; (And what <em>is<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_qTDAEasFLtU\/RjLeddDTC8I\/AAAAAAAAC8s\/YwS24sZZ5Gg\/s1600-h\/Ideal+Landscape+of+the+Middle+Oolite+Period.jpg\">this guy chewing on<\/a>? Hopefully it&#8217;s not an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/04\/070413-crocodile-picture.html\">arm turned into crocodile snack<\/a>, then reattached. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robgalbraith.com\/bins\/content_page.asp?cid=7-8738-8939\">Via<\/a>])<\/li>\n<li>The <em>NYT<\/em> features a slideshow of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2007\/05\/22\/science\/20070522_DEEP_SLIDESHOW_1.html\">amazing underwater creatures<\/a> (&quot;Dumbo octopi,&quot; seadevils, and more)&#8211;many who live just down the road from here in the Monterey Bay.  (And is it me, or did a seadevil <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/misc\/lemmy.jpg\">used to be in Mot\u00f6rhead<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>CNET has posted a gallery of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2300-11397_3-6174544-1.html?tag=newsmap\">hot solar action.<\/a> &#160; NASA provides info on how to use Photoshop to <a href=\"http:\/\/stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov\/classroom\/3d.shtml\">make the images 3D<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>And finally, for a look of sheer joy, can you beat Stephen Hawking <a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/hawking-floats.html\">going for a spin<\/a>?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air &amp; Space has the story of the first images from space (starting in 1946), taken from captured German V-2 rockets.&#160; Here&#8217;s a large panoramic shot from 1948. [Via] Having moved on just a bit since then, NASA &amp; the USGS have created a series called Earth as Art (this shot featuring the Anti-Atlast Mountains; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}