{"id":728,"date":"2004-12-20T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2004-12-20T22:00:05","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T02:00:05","slug":"the-scientists-are-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"The Scientists are at it again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"comet.gif\" id=\"image727\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/comet.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On July 4th this year <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a>        will attempt to <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/space\/0,2697,66079,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1\">shoot<\/a>        a 4 mile wide comet while it hurls through deep space.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As any field geologist knows, in order to understand the object you&#8217;re looking at, you have to reach out and give it a tap with your hammer,&#8221; said mission co-investigator Donald Yeomans, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the mission is being managed. &#8220;In this case, we&#8217;re going to smack it with an 800-pound impactor.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why do you have to shoot a comet to find out the origins of the Universe?        There has to be other things these <em>Scientists<\/em> could be working on;        such as the common cold. I have a hard time understanding why we can put        men in space but we can&#8217;t stop the common cold. Space travel has to be vastly        more complex than the common cold yet here we are in 2004 and the Common        Cold is unstoppable. <em>Scientists..<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 4th this year NASA will attempt to shoot a 4 mile wide comet while it hurls through deep space. &#8220;As any field geologist knows, in order to understand the object you&#8217;re looking at, you have to reach out and give it a tap with your hammer,&#8221; said mission co-investigator Donald Yeomans, of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-bK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}