{"id":33462,"date":"2011-04-03T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/lets-push-keith-out-of-an-airplane\/"},"modified":"2011-04-03T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:42:58","slug":"lets-push-keith-out-of-an-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/lets-push-keith-out-of-an-airplane.php","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Push Keith Out of an Airplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><\/div><p><\/p><p><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5403f_arrow.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"> <b>Keith's  note:<\/b> My friends got  a little carried away with this whole April Fool's day thing. Then again, NASA Watch first went on line on April 1, 1996, so I guess I should have expected this to all go full circle some day. From what I understand there are people willing to pay big bucks to have the honor of pushing me out of an airplane somewhere over Texas -- whenever I manage to take off from that landing strip in Friendswood and jump, that is. Now I guess I have no choice but to jump since my cheap cardboard Avatar has already taken the plunge - otherwise Gwen Griffin gets to collect that cash prize by pushing my avatar out of the plane. <\/p><p>From what I can tell from this video, my Avatar landed in Leroy Chiao's back yard (sorry).    I suppose I will have to actually re-enact this flight for real - while wearing a Keith mask - and that they will get Miles O'Brien to fly the plane (and dip it sideways so that I fall out).<\/p><p>Oh well, this is not the first time my Avatar has done strange things:  my old NASA badge went to the summit of Mt. Everest with a picture of Gorbie the space dog (<a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/2009\/IMG_0129.m.jpg\" target=\"blank\">photo<\/a> - that's \"Doogie\" Parazynski holding our pictures). Gorbie's parents live next to the hangar my Avatar drove into in the video.  Maybe Gorbie will jump with me. At least dogs like me.<\/p><p>I am supposed to take NASTAR suborbital training in a few weeks and I am now scared of what I will find waiting for me inside the centrifuge. Durda, Stern, Conrad, and Throop are relentless.  No doubt Parazynski will find some yak by-products to adorn my flight suit. I have certainly asked for it.<\/p><p>Visit more fun and abuse totally at my expense at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithwatch.com\/\">KeithWatch.com<\/a>.<\/p><p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5403f_TTg6ycskh3M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith's note: My friends got a little carried away with this whole April Fool's day thing. Then again, NASA Watch first went on line on April 1, 1996, so I guess I should have expected this to all go full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/lets-push-keith-out-of-an-airplane.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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33462"}],"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=33462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}