{"id":5970,"date":"2011-12-31T09:44:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T09:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/31\/links-for-2011-12-31\/"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T09:44:11","slug":"links-for-2011-12-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/31\/links-for-2011-12-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-12-31"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/7403367\/who-won-2011'>Determining the ultimate champion from the year that was &#8211; Grantland<\/a>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until I attempted to fill a draw of 64, and got stuck at 7, did I realize what a huge year this was for losers. If you weren&#8217;t getting financially screwed over, you were probably getting divorced, locked up, or pepper sprayed. That&#8217;s how I&#8217;ll always remember 2011. With that said, I was still determined to identify and either celebrate or hate on the winners of 2011. After days of Googling &#8220;best _____ of 2011&#8221; and &#8220;who still has a credit score going into 2012&#8221;, a draw of 32 was completed, with people, innovations, events, and other assorted nouns spread over four categories: sports, celebrities, technology, and movements\/phenomena.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/josephshoer.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/the-biggest-science-errors-in-sci-fi\/'>Quantum Rocketry \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb The Biggest Science Errors in Sci-Fi<\/a>\n<p>#1: Sensors If you are the captain on the bridge of a Star Trek ship, you have the advantage of being well-informed beyond the limits of physical possibility. Your science and tactical officers can consult the Sensors and instantly list for you every object within a few light years. They can tell you what each object is made of. They can give you a map of a planet surface, or approach a never-encountered-before alien spaceship and produce an interior schematic. They can rattle off the number, species, sentience, and state of health of every living thing on a planet. They can tell you what systems are active on an enemy ship. They can even quote for you what the enemy ship&#8217;s computers are calculating.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determining the ultimate champion from the year that was &#8211; Grantland It wasn&#8217;t until I attempted to fill a draw of 64, and got stuck at 7, did I realize what a huge year this was for losers. If you weren&#8217;t getting financially screwed over, you were probably getting divorced, locked up, or pepper sprayed.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/31\/links-for-2011-12-31\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-12-31<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}