{"id":1560,"date":"2010-01-29T23:40:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T04:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2010-01-29T23:40:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T04:40:57","slug":"its-full-of-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/its-full-of-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s full of stars!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have a confession to make…<\/p>\n

I should have been writing these past three hours.\u00a0 I really<\/em> should have been writing.\u00a0 But a couple of days ago, I downloaded this awesome<\/em> program called Celestia<\/a>.\u00a0 And when I say awesome, I mean awesome!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine Google Earth.\u00a0 Now, imagine Google Earth…for the Universe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I told you it was awesome.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I just downloaded all the messier objects , gps satellites, and some other random addons, and spent the last two hours playing with them when I should have been writing.<\/em> Gah!<\/p>\n

Oh well, I guess you can call it research. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

My goodness–words cannot describe how cool this stuff is.\u00a0 It’s like…like a planetarium on my computer.\u00a0 I’ve never felt so small in such an incredibly vast universe!\u00a0 And oh my heck, do you know what it’s like outside of our galaxy?\u00a0 No stars–just blackness everywhere!\u00a0 It’s so freaking scary!\u00a0 And inside of those massive globular clusters, like M13–holy cow!\u00a0 What would it be like to live on a planet in one of those clusters??<\/p>\n

I should probably stop rambling.\u00a0 But…but…it’s just so awesome!<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the kind of stuff I’ve been writing all my life!\u00a0 Stars and galaxies and planets, other worlds–and now, at last, I can get some kind of a tiny picture of what it all looks like.\u00a0 I feel like the nexus 6 soldier from Blade Runner: “I’ve seen things…” Seriously, this has the potential to revolutionize my writing.\u00a0 The things I’ve seen…<\/p>\n

But anyway, time to get my mind off the stars (at least temporarily) and write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a confession to make… I should have been writing these past three hours.\u00a0 I really should have been writing.\u00a0 But a couple of days ago, I downloaded this awesome program called Celestia.\u00a0 And when I say awesome, I mean awesome! Imagine Google Earth.\u00a0 Now, imagine Google Earth…for the Universe. I told you it… Continue reading It’s full of stars!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":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":[],"tags":[253,366,259,599,232],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-astronomy","tag-celestia","tag-just-for-fun","tag-thoughts-reflections","tag-why-we-write","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-pa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}