{"id":1794,"date":"2002-08-29T18:32:17","date_gmt":"2002-08-29T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2002-08-29T18:32:17","modified_gmt":"2002-08-29T18:32:17","slug":"what_a_great_id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"What a Great Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a> provides much entertainment:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p><p \/><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/#85393914\">Anti-comet airbag plans<\/a>. A scientist in Oklahoma is <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/nm\/20020828\/sc_nm\/space_airbags_dc_1\">planning to build giant, anti-comet <i>airbags<\/i><\/a> that can be sent into space and inflated to deflect the course of world-threating lumps of celestial rock. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<p>Far better to send up a space ship equipped with a massive airbag that could be inflated to several miles wide and used to gently buffet the invading solar body away from a collision course with earth.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>&#8220;It seems a safe, simple and realistic idea,&#8221; Burchard told the magazine&#8217;s latest edition. <\/p>\n<p \/><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<p>I can just see the space shuttle with a giant ballon in front of it ramming a comet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Boing Boing provides much entertainment: Anti-comet airbag plans. A scientist in Oklahoma is planning to build giant, anti-comet airbags that can be sent into space and inflated to deflect the course of world-threating lumps of celestial rock. Far better to send up a space ship equipped with a massive airbag that could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}