. . . which is not meant to imply that science is very happy right now.<\/p>\n
It isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Oh, engineers are kind of the cock of the walk now that they\u2019ve built space lasers and defense habitats to protect humanity from the scissors-rain, but purer scientists? They\u2019re not doing so well. They keep trying to explain how it might come to pass that suddenly sextillions of scissors might fall out of space and attack humanity in the first place \u2014 and failing. They can\u2019t<\/i> explain it. Their science proves useless.<\/p>\n
It isn\u2019t even a reproducible event!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
. . . which is not meant to imply that science is very happy right now. It isn\u2019t. Oh, engineers are kind of the cock of the walk now that they\u2019ve built space lasers and defense habitats to protect humanity from the scissors-rain, but purer scientists? They\u2019re not doing so well. They keep trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-3","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Icon_Ink_Paper-e1422845006103.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6495,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}