{"id":5775,"date":"2008-10-16T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2008-10-17T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:11:41","slug":"saturn%e2%80%99s-a-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/saturn%e2%80%99s-a-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Saturn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a mess&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a direct quote from Bad Astronomy&#8217;s Phil Plait. He talks at length about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/10\/13\/your-cassini-awesomeness-for-today\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Saturn&#8217;s south pole craziness<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/10\/13\/your-cassini-awesomeness-for-today\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/cassini_vortex.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cassini_vortex\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/cassini_vortex.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/cassini_vortex-385x300.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>While he talks <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/10\/13\/your-cassini-awesomeness-for-today\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">vortexes, convection and other science stuff<\/a>, right-brain mythology has me waxing artistic. It kinda looks like:<\/p>\n<p>1) a Picasso-esque smiley face<br \/>\n2) little spermy men circling for the kill<br \/>\n3) the launchpad clearing for Saturnian outpost attack<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s it look like to you?<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/10\/13\/your-cassini-awesomeness-for-today\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">bad astronomy<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a direct quote from Bad Astronomy&#8217;s Phil Plait. He talks at length about Saturn&#8217;s south pole craziness. While he talks vortexes, convection and other science stuff, right-brain mythology has me waxing artistic. It kinda looks like: 1) a Picasso-esque smiley face 2) little spermy men circling for the kill 3) the launchpad clearing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,81],"tags":[605,562,606,159],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space","tag-cassini","tag-ghost-my-senses-2008","tag-saturn","tag-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}