{"id":1369,"date":"2005-04-18T22:41:34","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T22:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/18\/the_view_from_a\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:09:01","slug":"the_view_from_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/18\/the_view_from_a\/","title":{"rendered":"The View From Asteroid M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=yuba+city,ca&#038;ll=39.145328,-121.431617&#038;spn=0.004656,0.008862&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\"  title=\"Why I love Google Maps\">satellite view<\/a> of Beale Air Force Base in Yuba City, CA:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=yuba+city,ca&#038;ll=39.145328,-121.431617&#038;spn=0.004656,0.008862&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SR071 Blackbird at Beale Air Force Base\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/google_blackbird.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice the trusty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanthigh.com\/tech\/blackbird.html\" >SR-71 Blackbird<\/a> sitting there? If you can squint real hard, you might even be able to see a beam of bright red light, or a short Canadian being thrown in the air by a big shiny thing &#8212; wait, is that lightning and a small cyclone in the corner?<\/p>\n<p>(Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shreddies.org\/gmaps\/2005\/04\/13\/planes-in-flight\/\" >Google Sightseeing<\/a> and their collection of airplanes found in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\" >Google Maps<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this amazing satellite view of Beale Air Force Base in Yuba City, CA: Notice the trusty SR-71 Blackbird sitting there? If you can squint real hard, you might even be able to see a beam of bright red light, or a short Canadian being thrown in the air by a big shiny thing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/18\/the_view_from_a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The View From Asteroid M&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71032,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/71032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}