{"id":539,"date":"2011-09-16T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T07:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2011-09-16T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T07:50:35","slug":"blowing-up-the-planet-kinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/09\/blowing-up-the-planet-kinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowing up the planet&#8230; kinda.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article from <em>Phil Plait <\/em>(The guy from Bad Astronomy) wrote an article about the math to do exactly this. Turns out it isn&#8217;t that easy (if possible\/practical at all) but if you really, really really need to do it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Blowing up a planet - don't\" href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/09\/astronomer-explains-why-w.php\" target=\"_blank\">3 reasons we can&#8217;t blow up a planet sci-fi style<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is an easier way to solve the problem of you wanting to &#8216;kill&#8217; a planet &#8211; just leave and find another one that would make you happy. It&#8217;s much easier and better (for us still living on this one&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article from Phil Plait (The guy from Bad Astronomy) wrote an article about the math to do exactly this. Turns out it isn&#8217;t that easy (if possible\/practical at all) but if you really, really really need to do it&#8230;. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/09\/blowing-up-the-planet-kinda\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,13],"tags":[40,81],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-stuff","category-technology","category-thoughts","tag-fun","tag-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}