{"id":25383,"date":"2010-03-30T00:12:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T00:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/03\/30\/it-came-from-outer-space\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T00:12:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T00:12:07","slug":"it-came-from-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/it-came-from-outer-space\/","title":{"rendered":"It Came from Outer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I knew a guy, way back in the 1970s, who thought that Pac Man &#8230;. the video game &#8230; was an attempt by aliens from another galaxy to communicate with us. Well, with <em>him<\/em>, actually.<\/p>\n<p>Huh.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-4ab8c5e16f0422a8da2f039ab64d1add-_47557147_pac_nasa_466.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-4ab8c5e16f0422a8da2f039ab64d1add-_47557147_pac_nasa_466.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn has caught an interesting new view of the tiny moon Mimas.<\/p>\n<p>The probe measured temperature differences across the object&#8217;s surface and produced a map that looks just like the 1980s Pac-Man video games icon.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are unsure why Mimas should display such variations &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8594101.stm\">bbc<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1980s indeed. That was Ms Pac Man.  Entirely different galaxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I knew a guy, way back in the 1970s, who thought that Pac Man &#8230;. the video game &#8230; was an attempt by aliens from another galaxy to communicate with us. Well, with him, actually. Huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Bp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}