{"id":6678,"date":"2012-10-16T20:15:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:23:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T02:23:44","slug":"foundation-earth-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2012\/10\/16\/foundation-earth-alpha\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation and Earth and Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired Science has a post about a newly found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/10\/earth-exoplanet-alpha-centauri\/\">Earth-sized planet around our closest star system neighbor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Alpha Centauri system \u00e2\u20ac\u201d composed of three stars orbiting one another \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is only 4.4 light-years away, a cosmic stone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s throw from us. Though the newly discovered planet has about the same mass as our own, its orbit is 25 times smaller, so a year on this planet passes in just 3.2 days. This means the planet is sitting up against its star, roasting at perhaps 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit with a surface likely composed of molten lava.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last year I read the Foundation series by \u00c2\u00a0Isaac Asimov. In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29582.Foundation_and_Earth\">Foundation and Earth<\/a><\/em>, Asimov describes a water covered planet with a small island with refugees of Earth on a planet named Alpha orbiting Alpha Centauri. This gem is nowhere close to the fictional Alpha. \u00c2\u00a0But, still, a planet so close is exciting!<\/p>\n<p>We have a long way to go before we could travel there as well. Probably not in my life time. Nor in the next few generations.<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired Science has a post about a newly found Earth-sized planet around our closest star system neighbor: The Alpha Centauri system \u00e2\u20ac\u201d composed of three stars orbiting one another \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is only 4.4 light-years away, a cosmic stone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s throw from us. Though the newly discovered planet has about the same mass as our own, its [&hellip;]<\/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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[1203],"tags":[2591,2592,2593,1261,2380],"class_list":["post-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astro-climate-geo","tag-alpha-centauri-system","tag-foundation-and-earth","tag-foundation-series","tag-isaac-asimov","tag-posted-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1JI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}