{"id":477526,"date":"2010-03-26T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=12117"},"modified":"2010-03-26T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:00:34","slug":"aliens-can-be-prickly-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/477526","title":{"rendered":"Aliens can be prickly | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are aliens among us!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe me? Then gaze upon this picture, O Foolish Human:<\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spydermonkey22\/4359246571\/sizes\/l\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2680\/4359246571_36ef6c527d.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>BABloggee <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spydermonkey22\/\">Jeremy Theriot<\/a> sent this picture to me. It looks innocent, doesn&#8217;t it? Ah, certainly, until you see it from a different angle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spydermonkey22\/4359984632\/sizes\/l\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4070\/4359984632_a251fb72a9.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><em>J&#8217;accuse!<\/em> Obviously, they walk among us! Or, more accurately, they are rooted among us. If prickly pear cacti have roots. I think they do. Yeah, let&#8217;s assume they do. <\/p>\n<p>So maybe they&#8217;re not a major threat, but have you ever seen one up close? I&#8217;m positive I don&#8217;t want one probing me, I assure you. There&#8217;s a reason they&#8217;re prickly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>P.S. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=51880957&#038;id=23414099\">This one<\/a> provides even more evidence that they photosynthesize among us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1tIXc-AMuQWm-fwjYZAE5L0b340\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1tIXc-AMuQWm-fwjYZAE5L0b340\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1tIXc-AMuQWm-fwjYZAE5L0b340\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1tIXc-AMuQWm-fwjYZAE5L0b340\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/SqyNmYDZsnY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/k7EUejYhgbc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are aliens among us! Don&#8217;t believe me? Then gaze upon this picture, O Foolish Human: BABloggee Jeremy Theriot sent this picture to me. It looks innocent, doesn&#8217;t it? Ah, certainly, until you see it from a different angle&#8230; J&#8217;accuse! Obviously, they walk among us! Or, more accurately, they are rooted among us. If prickly [&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-477526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477526","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=477526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}