{"id":227,"date":"2020-01-08T02:54:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T02:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2020-01-08T02:54:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T02:54:02","slug":"episode-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Episode 52"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/RPST_0052.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228\" width=\"900\" height=\"1256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/RPST_0052.jpg 900w, http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/RPST_0052-215x300.jpg 215w, http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/RPST_0052-734x1024.jpg 734w, http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/RPST_0052-768x1072.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-medium-font-size has-luminous-vivid-amber-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Captain&#8217;s Log:  This strip will be taking an extended hiatus following Episode 52. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\" class=\"has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Partially because I&#8217;ve got other projects and family health issues that require my attention, but mainly because I&#8217;m starting to run out of jokes (You&#8217;ll notice that the &#8220;physics&#8221; gags have been a little sparse lately). I&#8217;ll still post occasionally as I think of new scenarios (I&#8217;ve got a few that I&#8217;m holding in reserve until I can get screencaps of the elderly crew from <em>Picard<\/em>) but it may be several weeks or months between strips moving forward.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\" class=\"has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In the meantime, feel free to suggest any technological or scientific macguffins in Star Trek that I haven&#8217;t made fun of yet* that either break or have an extremely shaky footing in real practical science. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size has-luminous-vivid-orange-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>* These at least have to be things that I can reference visually given existing TNG screencaps. For example\u2026 There are a lot of jokes I could make about microgravity, but I can&#8217;t actually show any of the crew floating around in space or looking like bloated red-faced cabbage patch kids. (well\u2026 not without using that horrible CGI version of Data from <em>Picard<\/em>.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain&#8217;s Log: This strip will be taking an extended hiatus following Episode 52. Partially because I&#8217;ve got other projects and family health issues that require my attention, but mainly because I&#8217;m starting to run out of jokes (You&#8217;ll notice that the &#8220;physics&#8221; gags have been a little sparse lately). I&#8217;ll still post occasionally as I [&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-227","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\/227","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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realphysicsstartrek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}