{"id":5116,"date":"2013-06-09T22:26:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T02:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2013-06-09T22:26:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T02:26:50","slug":"light-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5116","title":{"rendered":"Light on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other night, <a href=\"http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/msl\/\">Curiosity<\/a> was working late.<\/p>\n<p>You walk around on the surface of a planet, and it is pitch dark. Suddenly, you spot a light on the horizon. It&#8217;s steady; it&#8217;s artificial. You conclude that it&#8217;s a sign of civilization.<\/p>\n<p>And indeed it is. What you see is an artificial light&#8230; but it belongs not to a living creature but to a robotic explorer. One that was created by a civilization a couple of hundred million kilometers away. A civilization that only <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arc_lamp#Carbon_arc_lamp\">invented electric lighting<\/a> just over two centuries earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light-on-mars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5117 aligncenter\" alt=\"light-on-mars\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light-on-mars.jpg\" width=\"672\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light-on-mars.jpg 840w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light-on-mars-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light-on-mars-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light-on-mars-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light-on-mars-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light-on-mars-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light-on-mars-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/light-on-mars-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find it eerily beautiful to see an artificial light bathing the rocky surface of an alien planet.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5116' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night, Curiosity was working late. You walk around on the surface of a planet, and it is pitch dark. Suddenly, you spot a light on the horizon. It&#8217;s steady; it&#8217;s artificial. You conclude that it&#8217;s a sign of civilization. And indeed it is. What you see is an artificial light&#8230; but it belongs <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5116' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5124,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions\/5124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}