{"id":7453,"date":"2014-04-21T16:08:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7453"},"modified":"2014-04-21T16:08:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:08:04","slug":"video-jason-silva-praises-cosmic-revolutionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7453","title":{"rendered":"Video: Jason Silva praises cosmic revolutionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve probably posted this video before but Jason Silva&#8217;s eloquent\u00a0alleluia\u00a0to spaceflight is worth a re-watch:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pTccWT2YOC8&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_d\">Exploring Space: Cosmic Revolutionaries &#8211; YouTube<\/a>\u00a0(via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgin.com\/richard-branson\/a-film-that%E2%80%99s-out-of-this-world\" target=\"_d\">Richard Branson<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pTccWT2YOC8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve probably posted this video before but Jason Silva&#8217;s eloquent\u00a0alleluia\u00a0to spaceflight is worth a re-watch:\u00a0Exploring Space: Cosmic Revolutionaries &#8211; YouTube\u00a0(via\u00a0Richard Branson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[3,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-multiple-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Wd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3597,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3597","url_meta":{"origin":7453,"position":0},"title":"Exploring Space: Cosmic Revolutionaries &#8211; Jason Silva","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Jason Silva gives a passionate oration on the thrills and significance of space travel: http:\/\/youtu.be\/pTccWT2YOC8","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/pTccWT2YOC8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16901,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16901","url_meta":{"origin":7453,"position":1},"title":"ESO: Watching stars form in the Skull and Crossbones Nebula","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest report from the European Southern Observatrory (ESO): The Pirate of the Southern Skies FORS2, an instrument mounted on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope, has observed the active star-forming region NGC 2467 \u2014 sometimes referred to as the Skull and Crossbones Nebula. 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