{"id":1885,"date":"2008-09-26T12:26:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T17:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/09\/26\/want\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T12:26:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T17:26:41","slug":"want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/want\/","title":{"rendered":"Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a birthday coming up, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE48P63220080926\">this<\/a> is definitely going on my Amazon.com wish list.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/europe\/article4832569.ece'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/jet_4_404760a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" class=\"center size-full wp-image-1927\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, flying at a height of about 6000 ft across the English Channel in his personal jetpack yesterday.  He reached speeds of up to 125 mph before releasing his parachute and landing in England.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2008\/09\/its-a-bird-its.html\">Via<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This would make my morning commute quicker.  More science would get done, and the world would benefit.  Let&#8217;s start taking up a collection, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a birthday coming up, and this is definitely going on my Amazon.com wish list. That is Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, flying at a height of about 6000 ft across the English Channel in his personal jetpack yesterday. He reached speeds of up to 125 mph before releasing his parachute and landing in England. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}