{"id":5290,"date":"2010-08-26T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T22:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2010-08-26T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T22:01:31","slug":"death-from-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/26\/death-from-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Death from the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of video goodness, we&#8217;d be remiss not to remind everyone that <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/tv-schedules\/series.html?paid=1.403.26097.38440.1\">Sunday<\/a> is the premiere of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/\">Phil Plait&#8217;s<\/a> new mini-series on <em>Discovery<\/em>, Bad Universe.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a lot like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armageddon_%281998_film%29\">Armageddon<\/a><\/em>, with Phil instead of Bruce Willis in the role of the balding hero figure.  And science instead of complete nonsense.  Improvements all around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of video goodness, we&#8217;d be remiss not to remind everyone that Sunday is the premiere of Phil Plait&#8217;s new mini-series on Discovery, Bad Universe. It will be a lot like Armageddon, with Phil instead of Bruce Willis in the role of the balding hero figure. And science instead of complete nonsense. Improvements all around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-the-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}