{"id":5281,"date":"2012-07-25T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2012-07-25T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T04:30:09","slug":"the-need-to-explore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5281","title":{"rendered":"The Need To Explore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Bad Astronomer, I found this video talking about the ALMA array and the need for exploration that drives my profession.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc1122c6\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=48085373&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 420px;\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\">breaking news<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">world news<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth watching, especially because it interviews scientists from one of best institutions of higher learning in the known universe: Mr. Jefferson&#8217;s.  (Of which I might happen to be a graduate).  Funny thing: I started out my career in radio astronomy and intended to pursue a career in it.  Now I work in the gamma-ray regime, about as far away from radio as you can get and still be on the electromagnetic spectrum.  But I still love the epic scale of radio telescopes.  I&#8217;ve been to Arecibo.  I would dearly love to see ALMA some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Bad Astronomer, I found this video talking about the ALMA array and the need for exploration that drives my profession. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy It&#8217;s worth watching, especially because it interviews scientists from one of best institutions of higher learning in the known universe: Mr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Need To Explore<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[84,33,197],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-science-2","tag-uva"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1nb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5282,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}