{"id":188536,"date":"2010-09-08T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/08\/sunse-space-goatse\/"},"modified":"2010-09-08T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T01:46:00","slug":"sunse-space-goatse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/08\/sunse-space-goatse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunse?  Space Goatse*?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 340px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img46\/8446\/500xsunspotimage1009030.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img46\/8446\/500xsunspotimage1009030.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"330\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">There is a reason why the comments at io9 are so rude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img441\/7232\/340x9785664.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img441\/7232\/340x9785664.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> Space Goatse<sup>\u2020<\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO)  has <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5630669\/the-clearest-photo-of-a-sunspot-weve-seen-thus-far\">published what is the most detailed photo of a The clearest photo of a sunspot we&#8217;ve seen thus far<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not what I, or many of the folks who commented about the picture.<\/p>\n<p>It was about 50-50 between people who thought that it looked like the eye of Sauron, and people who thought that it resembled a certain unspeakable Internet meme.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I never saw the Lord of the Rings movies, so you can guess where <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">my<\/span> mind went.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, if you want to review the comments on the thread, and you understand the context,<sup>*<\/sup> then you may find significant amusement regarding what is otherwise a straightforward science story.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t hedgehog on by invitation only <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a> for finding this little &#8220;gem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">If you don&#8217;t know what Goatse is, for the sake of all that is holy, do not Google it!<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Thank SupaChupacabra at io9 for this bit of wit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size There is a reason why the comments at io9 are so rude. Space Goatse\u2020 The Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) has published what is the most detailed photo of a The clearest photo of a sunspot we&#8217;ve seen thus far. But this is not what I, or many of the folks &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1048,1175,1124,1104,1069,1037,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-literature","category-photographs","category-psychology","category-science","category-space","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}