{"id":19396,"date":"2010-05-30T08:09:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T08:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/followup-scramjet-test-a-success-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-05-30T08:09:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T08:09:35","slug":"followup-scramjet-test-a-success-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/followup-scramjet-test-a-success-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Followup: Scramjet test a success | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1bd3a_airforce_scramjet.jpg\" alt=\"airforce_scramjet\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16143\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory?id=10756873\">ABC news is reporting<\/a> that the Air Force tested <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/05\/24\/what-is-the-air-force-doing-with-space\/\">the X-51A scramjet<\/a> yesterday, and that it successfully fired for 200 seconds, blowing away &mdash; literally &mdash; the previous record of 12 seconds. <\/p><p>Very cool. So screw getting your own jet pack. When do we get our own Mach 6 personal scrampacks<sup><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=b1f7827b1dfe342d3c7cc9be64d477ac#footnote\">*<\/a><\/sup>?<\/p><p><em>Tip o&rsquo; the windscreen to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/05\/27\/1411251\/USAF-Scramjet-Hits-Mach-6-Sets-Record\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"footnote\"><\/a><\/p><hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\"><em><sup>*<\/sup>Scrampack&trade; is a trademark of Phil Plait and Bad Astronomy, LLC. Any use except by the military, which could bomb my neighborhood at 7000 kph, is prohibited.<\/em><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_q7AnFop1cG8rIdqEcfm1YRNH-Y\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1bd3a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_q7AnFop1cG8rIdqEcfm1YRNH-Y\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1bd3a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1bd3a_cyDg39iCugA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1bd3a_Pa9hANez6_w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC news is reporting that the Air Force tested the X-51A scramjet yesterday, and that it successfully fired for 200 seconds, blowing away &mdash; literally &mdash; the previous record of 12 seconds. Very cool. So screw getting your own jet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/followup-scramjet-test-a-success-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}