{"id":3497,"date":"2012-03-29T08:28:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T22:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2012-03-29T08:28:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T22:28:54","slug":"now-this-is-a-galaxy-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2012\/03\/29\/now-this-is-a-galaxy-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Now This is a Galaxy Map!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I was going to hang a large print on my walls I wouldn&#8217;t go for some art piece or a photo (although I do like to <a href=\"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">dabble in photography<\/a> from time to time), no what I&#8217;d probably go for is a giant print of our galaxy or one of our close neighbours. Even better would be something that was interactive as I&#8217;ve always enjoyed programs like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shatters.net\/celestia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celestia<\/a>\u00a0that let you zoom around the galaxy, checking out all the billions stars and (just recently) their orbiting planets.<\/p>\n<p>It seems some of the guys at Microsoft have a similar appreciation:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YzoXPav7uzs\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YzoXPav7uzs<\/a>\n<p>The Microsoft Surface has always been an amazing piece of kit and it never fails to surprise me when they bring out yet another innovative idea based around it. Whilst I can&#8217;t really think of any kind of practical use for something like this I do think it would be awesome as a tool to get people interested in space (kids especially).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I was going to hang a large print on my walls I wouldn&#8217;t go for some art piece or a photo (although I do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[3342,3340,3341,3339],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-tech","tag-celestia","tag-galaxy-map","tag-interactive","tag-microsoft-surface"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppBqt-Up","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}