{"id":119,"date":"2019-08-09T05:40:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T05:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2019-08-09T06:08:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T06:08:36","slug":"episode-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Episode 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RPST_0024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124\" width=\"900\" height=\"1248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RPST_0024-1.jpg 900w, http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RPST_0024-1-216x300.jpg 216w, http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RPST_0024-1-768x1065.jpg 768w, http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RPST_0024-1-738x1024.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\"><strong>Author&#8217;s note: I&#8217;ve been sitting on this strip for several days, because it&#8217;s in somewhat poor taste to joke about mass casualties in the wake of so many mass casualties. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\"><strong>Unfortunately, give the racist troll currently squatting in the White House who gets a tiny little tangerine-colored chubby every time he fans the flames of hatred before professing to be the &#8220;least racist person on the planet,&#8221; I&#8217;ve lost track of the last time that we DIDN&#8217;T have a mass shooting or other shamefully preventable national tragedy casting a shadow over the country I live in. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\"><strong>At any rate, I apologize for posting such a bleak and depressing strip, though it is based on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/twins-study\/research\"><strong>real data collected from the NASA Twin Study<\/strong><\/a><strong> of astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly.  Well worth checking out if you&#8217;re interested in the long-term effects of life outside of Earth. The good news is, that while extended space flight does have a detrimental effect on the human body, most of the ill effects Scott experienced during his one-year stay on the ISS, normalized fairly soon after he returned to Earth. A not-so-gentle reminder, that while it&#8217;s important to reach for the stars, the human race has one, and only one, home. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"><strong> P.S. &#8211; I promise the next one will be sillier. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s note: I&#8217;ve been sitting on this strip for several days, because it&#8217;s in somewhat poor taste to joke about mass casualties in the wake of so many mass casualties. Unfortunately, give the racist troll currently squatting in the White House who gets a tiny little tangerine-colored chubby every time he fans the flames of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}