{"id":190,"date":"2007-09-21T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2007-09-21T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T18:14:06","slug":"about-that-lunar-x-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/about-that-lunar-x-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"About that lunar X-Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And folks wondered why I thought Red was the ginchiest&#8230;[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2007\/09\/070920145347.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A lunar prospector will face a hostile environment in the perpetual darkness of craters at the moon&#8217;s southern pole, where ground temperatures are minus 385 degrees and no energy source is at hand,&#8221; said William &#8220;Red&#8221; Whittaker, the Fredkin Research Professor and principal investigator of the NASA-funded project. &#8220;It&#8217;s a place where humans can&#8217;t work effectively, but where Scarab will thrive, even while operating on the electrical power required to illuminate a 100-watt light bulb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/images\/2007\/09\/070920145347.jpg\" align=\"absbottom\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And folks wondered why I thought Red was the ginchiest&#8230;[Link] &#8220;A lunar prospector will face a hostile environment in the perpetual darkness of craters at the moon&#8217;s southern pole, where ground temperatures are minus 385 degrees and no energy source is at hand,&#8221; said William &#8220;Red&#8221; Whittaker, the Fredkin Research Professor and principal investigator of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-34","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}