{"id":274877,"date":"2010-02-03T16:09:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T21:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=11148"},"modified":"2010-02-03T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T21:09:45","slug":"cosmophobia-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/274877","title":{"rendered":"Cosmophobia | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/02\/02\/hubble-captures-picture-of-asteroid-collision\/\">my recent post<\/a> showing a Hubble image of two asteroids colliding, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/words\/cosmophobia.asp\">the website Word Spy<\/a> just happened to have a funny choice for their word of the day: <em>cosmophobia<\/em>, &#8220;the strong and irrational fear that in the near future the earth will be destroyed by some cosmic event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I figured it&#8217;s really for people who don&#8217;t like vodka, triple sec, cranberry and lime juice all mixed together, which is silly. Unless it&#8217;s headed for you at 30 km\/sec. Because that&#8217;ll give you a pretty wicked hangover.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/79mS9dJUmBoLobxeA625y2ivWM4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/79mS9dJUmBoLobxeA625y2ivWM4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/79mS9dJUmBoLobxeA625y2ivWM4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/79mS9dJUmBoLobxeA625y2ivWM4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/7UJHRQnOQ-g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/rFneEiL90Mk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of my recent post showing a Hubble image of two asteroids colliding, the website Word Spy just happened to have a funny choice for their word of the day: cosmophobia, &#8220;the strong and irrational fear that in the near future the earth will be destroyed by some cosmic event.&#8221; Personally, I figured it&#8217;s really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}