{"id":1340,"date":"2002-01-22T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2002-01-22T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2002-01-22T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2002-01-22T20:59:08","slug":"science_once_ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/22\/science_once_ag.html","title":{"rendered":"Science once again screws up SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SciFi never completely recovered from the Mariner probes demonstrating that Mars was a dry, cratered planet, utterly lacking in canals.  Though later probes showed the sign of past water flow, scads of classic sf from the 30s-50s was tossed out the windows.<\/p>\n<p>Well, scientists are at it again, proposing that black holes, a staple of sf for decades, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmiverse.com\/space01170204.html\">may not really exist<\/a>.  Well, poop on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SciFi never completely recovered from the Mariner probes demonstrating that Mars was a dry, cratered planet, utterly lacking in canals. 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