{"id":336,"date":"2005-07-05T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2005-07-05T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T09:45:00","slug":"your-cometbuster-deformed-my-horoscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/05\/your-cometbuster-deformed-my-horoscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Cometbuster Deformed My Horoscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been feeling &#8220;off&#8221; lately?  Does your daily horoscope no longer seem SO relevant <i>just to you<\/i>? Well, now we know why:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/deepimpact.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the successful <a href=\"http:\/\/deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov\/home\/index.html\">Deep Impact<\/a> probe, an astrologer is now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050705\/ap_on_fe_st\/russia_comet_case\">suing NASA<\/a> over the irreparable harm it caused to &#8220;the natural balance of the forces of the universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whoops.  Sorry about that.   For those who have been suffering more long-standing dysphoria, however, NASA scientists had this to say:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seds.lpl.arizona.edu\/sl9\/sl9.html\">We had nothing to do with it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/jupiterimpact.gif\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, guys, if an entire comet (the astrological symbol of doom) smacking into the largest planet (the astrological symbol of luck) isn&#8217;t going to deform your horoscopes, there&#8217;s no way 300 pounds of copper dinging a comet will.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been feeling &#8220;off&#8221; lately? Does your daily horoscope no longer seem SO relevant just to you? Well, now we know why: In the wake of the successful Deep Impact probe,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hard-science","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}