{"id":12,"date":"2007-08-27T06:06:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T11:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucepress.net\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-08-27T06:06:21","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T11:06:21","slug":"spaghettification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Spaghettification!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just realized that I haven’t successfully completed and published a post in quite a while. I think I’ll have to get more disciplined about this whole thing.<\/p>\n

Well, here it is the start of a new week and my kids will be off to school soon. Yet it’s me that has learned stuff already today.<\/p>\n

I used to be a huge fan of Slacker Astronomy<\/a>. Then, around the time the reorganized into Slackerpedia Galactica<\/a> and Dr. Pamela Gay moved on to Astronomy Cast<\/a> with Frasier Cain, publisher of The Universe Today<\/a>, my ADD kicked in and I wandered away to any of the other 50 podcasts I seem to be subscribed to.
\nWell, this morning, I decided to get a little smarter and was paid off handsomely. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy the episode on the Planet Mercury<\/a>, I then listened to the prior episode on tidal forces<\/a>. Which was totally cool. Especially, since I found out that the stretching that occurs when the gravitational pull on one end of an object is greater than at the other is called, get this, Spaghettification<\/strong>. Now, as you’re sliding into the Black Hole and your feet are stretching away into infiinity, you can look down and think, “Gee, I’m Spaghettifying!” How cool is that?<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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