{"id":802,"date":"2008-07-11T07:14:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T11:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2008-07-11T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T12:07:52","slug":"universe-sandbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Universe Sandbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videogame programmer Dan Dixon has created an interactive space simulator which lets you play dice with the universe.  Even better, it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Smash planets together, introduce rogue stars, and build new worlds from spinning discs of debris. Fire a moon into a planet or destroy everything you&#8217;ve created with a super massive black hole.<\/p>\n<p>You can simulate and interact with:<br \/>\n<UL><LI>Our solar system: the 8 planets,160+ moons, and hundereds of asteroids<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Nearest 1000 stars to our Sun<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Our local group of galaxies<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>An unlimited number of fictional scenarios<\/LI><\/UL><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><BR><br \/>\nThis would be a great educational tool for teaching kids about astrophysics.  Or just use it to smash asteroids into planets.  You know you want to.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/dailygrail.com\/\">Daily Grail<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videogame programmer Dan Dixon has created an interactive space simulator which lets you play dice with the universe. Even better, it&#8217;s free. Smash planets together, introduce rogue stars, and build new worlds from spinning discs of debris. Fire a moon into a planet or destroy everything you&#8217;ve created with a super massive black hole. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}