{"id":320,"date":"2009-07-13T15:37:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2009-07-13T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:37:51","slug":"in-which-i-am-cited-but-not-for-speeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/13\/in-which-i-am-cited-but-not-for-speeding\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I am cited (but not for speeding)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.printfection.com\/retro-future\/Speed-Limit-T-Shirt\/_p_871888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/transit\/section_speed.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Light Speed Tee Shirts\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In a surprising instance of somewhat academic thoroughness, Discover magazine has cited my &#8220;Speed Limit&#8221; tee shirts in what is (otherwise?) <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/sciencenotfiction\/2009\/07\/13\/behind-the-scenes-under-the-hood-virtualitys-antimatter-spacecraft-engine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a pretty impressive article about near lightspeed travel <\/a>using pulse drives &#8211; whether the altogether possible nuclear version, or the &#8220;hey, maybe in a hundred years&#8221; antimatter version.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I&#8217;m pleased to be a part of it. Even though I quail a little at the thought of using nuclear bombs for propulsion I have to admit that there&#8217;s something sort of appealing about chucking those puppies out the back of a spaceship and hanging on. &#8220;Fire in the hole!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">[tags]speed of light, t shirt, relativity, 186000 miles per second, retropolis, pulse drive, interstellar travel, spaceship, space ship, who needs a catalytic converter anyway[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising instance of somewhat academic thoroughness, Discover magazine has cited my &#8220;Speed Limit&#8221; tee shirts in what is (otherwise?) a pretty impressive article about near lightspeed travel using pulse drives &#8211; whether the altogether possible nuclear version, or the &#8220;hey, maybe in a hundred years&#8221; antimatter version. I&#8217;m pleased to be a part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hodgepodge"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}