{"id":18994,"date":"2017-04-13T20:03:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/donald-trump-gets-an-astronauts-words-thrown-in-his-face-from-stratosphere\/"},"modified":"2017-04-13T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:03:01","slug":"donald-trump-gets-an-astronauts-words-thrown-in-his-face-from-stratosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/donald-trump-gets-an-astronauts-words-thrown-in-his-face-from-stratosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump gets an astronaut\u2019s words thrown in his face from stratosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If someone can send a Donald Trump bobblehead tribute up into the stratosphere on a balloon, we suppose it\u2019s only fair that a protest of President Trump\u2019s policies can go up there, too. That\u2019s what the totally unofficial Autonomous Space Agency Network did with its Aphrodite Program balloon launch of a printed-out tweet&nbsp;that\u2019s addressed to Trump. The message? \u201cLOOK AT THAT, YOU SON OF A BITCH,\u201d with our beautiful planet seen in the background from a&nbsp;height of 90,000 feet. The command was inspired by the late Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who observed that international&nbsp;politics seem so petty when you look at Earth from the moon. \u201cYou want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, \u2018Look at that, you son of a bitch,\u2019 Mitchell said. What do you say, Mr. President? (Hat tip to Mashable and Motherboard.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"First Protest in Space\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/damWIvQn1Eo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone can send a Donald Trump bobblehead tribute up into the stratosphere on a balloon, we suppose it\u2019s only fair that a protest of President Trump\u2019s policies can go up there, too. That\u2019s what the totally unofficial Autonomous Space Agency Network did with its Aphrodite Program balloon launch of a printed-out tweet&nbsp;that\u2019s addressed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4671,2539,3811,4467,4805],"class_list":["post-18994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-balloon","tag-donald-trump","tag-edgar-mitchell","tag-politics","tag-stratosphere"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}