{"id":118819,"date":"2021-01-24T00:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T08:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/groundbreaking-new-laser-system-cuts-through-earths-atmosphere-like-its-nothing"},"modified":"2021-01-24T00:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T08:22:41","slug":"groundbreaking-new-laser-system-cuts-through-earths-atmosphere-like-its-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/groundbreaking-new-laser-system-cuts-through-earths-atmosphere-like-its-nothing","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking New Laser System Cuts Through Earth\u2019s Atmosphere Like It\u2019s Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/groundbreaking-new-laser-system-cuts-through-earths-atmosphere-like-its-nothing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To artists and romantics, the twinkling of stars is visual poetry; a dance of distant light as it twists and bends through a turbulent ocean of air above our heads.<\/p>\n<p>Not everybody is so enamoured with our atmosphere\u2019s distortions. To many scientists and engineers, a great deal of research and ground-to-satellite communication would be a whole lot easier if the air simply wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<p>Losing our planet\u2019s protective bubble of gases isn\u2019t exactly a popular option. But Australian and French researchers have teamed up to design the next best thing \u2013 a system that guides light through the tempestuous currents of rippling air with the flick of a mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To artists and romantics, the twinkling of stars is visual poetry; a dance of distant light as it twists and bends through a turbulent ocean of air above our heads. Not everybody is so enamoured with our atmosphere\u2019s distortions. To many scientists and engineers, a great deal of research and ground-to-satellite communication would be a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}