{"id":8603,"date":"2017-03-17T08:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T13:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8603"},"modified":"2017-03-17T08:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T13:21:39","slug":"theres-something-wrong-with-this-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/17\/theres-something-wrong-with-this-context\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Something Wrong With This Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have nothing against retro. In fact, in the right circumstances I like it a lot. But this <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2017\/april-2017\/walking-with-venus-wind\" target=\"_blank\">tidbit<\/a> from Jonathon Keats in <em><strong>Discover Magazine<\/strong><\/em>, well, the retro seems a bit out of context:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.victor-victrola.com\/external.jpg?resize=165%2C178\" width=\"165\" height=\"178\" \/>The Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) [a proposal for a Venus probe &#8211; <em>HW<\/em>] \u2014 which recently received a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts grant \u2014 is built entirely of hardened metals and guided by a clockwork computer. The rover is still far from a planned mission, but it would be able to collect weeks\u2019 worth of climate and seismic data from Venus\u2019 surface, all recorded on phonograph-style records that periodically would be lifted by balloon to an overhead drone. Then NASA just needs to salvage an old Victrola.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it the old phonograph records? The balloon? An alternative they&#8217;re considering is to use reflectors to send the data via visible light. Maybe they can just send a one-way Navy volunteer who happens to know the old flag signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have nothing against retro. In fact, in the right circumstances I like it a lot. But this tidbit from Jonathon Keats in Discover Magazine, well, the retro seems a bit out of context: The Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) [a proposal for a Venus probe &#8211; HW] \u2014 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/17\/theres-something-wrong-with-this-context\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8604,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions\/8604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}