{"id":2312,"date":"2009-05-23T18:27:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2009-05-23T18:27:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T18:27:31","slug":"look_at_what_we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2312","title":{"rendered":"Look At What We Can Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once the weather improves, the space shuttle Atlantis will return to Earth after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/05\/23\/EDIP17PF65.DTL&amp;type=science\">successfully completing its mission to repair the Hubble telescope<\/a>. Let&#8217;s take a moment to marvel at the mind-boggling coolness of this accomplishment. A group of people blasted off on a rocket, orchestrated a carefully calculated ballet of physics to chase down an object moving at thousands of miles per hour, plucked it out of space with a robotic arm, gave it a tune-up while working in the vacuum of space, and then returned said object to its usual orbit. A million things could have gone wrong, but somehow, everything went as planned. <\/p>\n<p>Humans can fuck up on a grand scale, but sometimes we don&#8217;t give ourselves enough credit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the weather improves, the space shuttle Atlantis will return to Earth after successfully completing its mission to repair the Hubble telescope. Let&#8217;s take a moment to marvel at the mind-boggling coolness of this accomplishment. A group of people blasted off on a rocket, orchestrated a carefully calculated ballet of physics to chase down an <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2312' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Bi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}