{"id":380,"date":"2007-07-02T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=380"},"modified":"2021-02-14T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T06:11:58","slug":"space-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2007\/07\/02\/space-the-final-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Space, the final frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">All the Star Trek fans would know that bit, the one that starts this way and ends with &#8216;..to boldly go where no man has gone before&#8217;&#8230; Well, Sunita Williams did, and now she&#8217;s back&#8230; like i read somewhere, she must be stinking, but thats beside the point&#8230; i think it must&#8217;ve been one awesome experience, though i wish we would learn to celebrate with dignity, and not create a popcorn tamasha of everything&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">I am reading Asimov&#8217;s Foundation and Earth, and that&#8217;ll finish the series for me.. rather, re-finish it, and i don&#8217;t think this will be the last time&#8230; i still remember the first time i saw it, that was way back &#8211;  when i was in school,i didn&#8217;t understand most of it, and left it&#8230; i made contact for the second time when i was in my first year of grad -and it took many library visits and many long months for me to finish off all 7 books of the series, and that was an awesome experience. Years later, i have managed to buy all the 7 books, and that took around 2 years, mostly thanks to the one i am reading&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">I read an article last week in TOI, about a new design of spaceships that they were going to start using in 2010 and which might be the first step towards interstellar travel.. For once, i wish i were born in the future, just to experience space travel, to watch the stars and to feel first hand the awe-inspiring vastness of the galaxy&#8230; what an awesome experience that would be&#8230; But thats something that can&#8217;t happen and so, centuries later, when men, and women, would be freely roaming around the galaxy, we would be, perhaps, a remote statistic that existed in the initial days of humanity&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><br \/>until next time, live long and prosper \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the Star Trek fans would know that bit, the one that starts this way and ends with &#8216;..to boldly go where no man has gone before&#8217;&#8230; Well, Sunita Williams did, and now she&#8217;s back&#8230; like i read somewhere, she must be stinking, but thats beside the point&#8230; i think it must&#8217;ve been one awesome <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2007\/07\/02\/space-the-final-frontier\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[452,6366,641,1114,6365],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-asimov","tag-foundation-series","tag-space","tag-star-trek","tag-sunita-williams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15663,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/15663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}