{"id":15059,"date":"2023-06-20T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/?p=15059"},"modified":"2024-01-18T18:55:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T18:55:30","slug":"ultima-thule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2023\/06\/20\/ultima-thule\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultima Thule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cTwo connected sphere-like shapes held in contact by mutual gravity\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"883\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6206-883x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6206-883x1024-1.jpg 883w, https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6206-883x1024-1-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6206-883x1024-1-768x891.jpg 768w, https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6206-883x1024-1-676x784.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Look familiar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no such thing as the \u201cKuiper Belt,\u201d that is sort of like walking up to a mirror and seeing the back of your head in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to \u201cspace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"931\" src=\"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_5294-1024x931-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_5294-1024x931-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_5294-1024x931-1-300x273.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_5294-1024x931-1-768x698.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_5294-1024x931-1-676x615.jpeg 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Ultima thule is Latin and has been used over to the centuries to refer to an area of the world that is the most distant and inaccessible. \u00a0In other words as NASA describes, it\u2019s a place \u201cbeyond the known world.\u201d \u00a0The term was originally used in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography to denote a mythical island in the area furthest north. \u00a0In classical and medieval cartography and literature, this term took on the meaning of anyplace beyond the known world at the time. \u00a0Claudian, the Latin poet, proclaimed, \u201c<em>ratibusque<\/em>\u00a0impcrvia\u00a0<em>Thule\u201d\u00a0<\/em>which means \u201cwhere no ships can sail.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geographyrealm.com\/what-does-ultima-thule-mean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HTTPS:\/\/WWW.GEOGRAPHYREALM.COM\/WHAT-DOES-ULTIMA-THULE-MEAN\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTwo connected sphere-like shapes held in contact by mutual gravity\u201d Look familiar? There is no such thing as the \u201cKuiper Belt,\u201d that is sort of like walking up to a mirror and seeing the back of your head in it. Welcome to \u201cspace.\u201d Ultima thule is Latin and has been used over to the centuries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15062,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15059\/revisions\/15062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}