{"id":13099,"date":"2019-01-24T19:57:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T03:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=13099"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:06:38","slug":"13099","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/01\/24\/13099\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1730,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Clarke%27s_three_laws&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260219040909\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Clarke%27s_three_laws&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 05:02:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 05:02:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2328,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scientificamerican.com\\\/article\\\/shermers-last-law&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260213224821\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.scientificamerican.com\\\/article\\\/shermers-last-law\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 08:58:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 11:36:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 07:39:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 07:39:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Star Trek: Discovery S02E02: &#x1f44d;<\/p>\n<p>I really liked the extrapolation of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clarke%27s_three_laws\">Clarke\u2019s Third Law<\/a>; it was new to me, but WikiPedia says that particular variation is also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/shermers-last-law\/\">Shermer\u2019s Last Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael assuring Pike she wouldn\u2019t make him laugh was the best line of the episode.<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f596;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: Discovery S02E02: &#x1f44d; I really liked the extrapolation of Clarke\u2019s Third Law; it was new to me, but WikiPedia says that particular variation is also known as Shermer\u2019s Last Law. Michael assuring Pike she wouldn\u2019t make him laugh was the best line of the episode. &#x1f596;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047],"tags":[1015,3857,1665,4097],"class_list":["post-13099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-arthur-c-clarke","tag-dis","tag-discovery","tag-star-trek","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}