{"id":129,"date":"2019-01-20T18:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graceamazingly.wordpress.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2019-01-20T18:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:36:30","slug":"its-beyond-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/2019\/01\/20\/its-beyond-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s beyond me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1977, the year Voyager 1 was launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No longer in its teenage years, in early 2019, it had reached a point in space no human created object had travelled to, and transmitted back images of a planet it sought to focus on &#8211; Ultima Thule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/astronomy-3199541_640.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-130\" width=\"160\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/astronomy-3199541_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/astronomy-3199541_640-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking about this a month after the event feels like a long past event, historical. But scientists had planned for this several human generations ago; to some, even the launch was before they were born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human creativity and capacity in science is phenomenal. As someone completely uninformed about planetary science, I&#8217;m sure much of the science stuff here is &#8216;predictable&#8217;, in the sense that objects do tend to follow some predictable way of life, so long we discover each object&#8217;s &#8216;behavioural pattern&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d like to keep up with planetary science because it is so beyond what we do or say day in and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/star-2651962_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/star-2651962_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/star-2651962_640-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, we have a capacity to put meaning to what&#8217;s happening &#8216;up there&#8217;, but really, these objects might simply be, they don&#8217;t have character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With each new discoveries, it&#8217;s just sheer awesomeness of it that I feel about it. A tiny planet maybe, but Voyager 1 gets past to say hi. For them two to have met was quite something. It&#8217;s all beyond me. But I love keeping up with the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1977, the year Voyager 1 was launched. No longer in its teenage years, in early 2019, it had reached a point in space no human created object had travelled to, and transmitted back images of a planet it sought to focus on &#8211; Ultima Thule. Thinking about this a month after the event feels like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planets","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}