{"id":11103,"date":"2012-02-23T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11103"},"modified":"2012-02-23T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T08:00:05","slug":"boom-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11103","title":{"rendered":"Boom Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HY7mTCMvpEM?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HY7mTCMvpEM?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The disposal of drums of sodium into Lake Lenore, an alkaline lake in the Grand Coulee area of eastern Washington State, in 1947 by the War Assets Administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2012\/02\/22\/wanna-dispose-of-some-sodium-na\/\">Wanna dispose of some sodium? Na.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A]fter WWII, the US government found they had some extra sodium no one wanted, so they disposed of it.<br \/>\nIn a lake. Full of water. And by the way, it was <strong>ten tons of pure sodium<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Safety and environmental impact disclaimer<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, and all that surplus WWII sodium? While that would destroy the ecology of a lake, in this case it was already a heavily alkaline lake with no fish in it. While I wouldn\u2019t say this was a great thing to do, at least they thought to minimize the impact. But cripes: don\u2019t try this at home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The disposal of drums of sodium into Lake Lenore, an alkaline lake in the Grand Coulee area of eastern Washington State, in 1947 by the War Assets Administration. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11103\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-other-science","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}