{"id":11277,"date":"2012-03-19T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11277"},"modified":"2012-03-19T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T08:00:29","slug":"you-cant-get-there-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11277","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#039;t Get There From Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/13\/science\/what-is-the-best-option-in-a-free-falling-elevator.html?_r=1\">Taking the Plunge<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Q. If I find myself in a free-falling elevator, is there any position that might increase my chance of survival? (Climbing on top of other people is not an acceptable answer.)<\/p>\n<p>A.<\/strong> The best option would be to lie on your back on the floor as flat as possible, said Eliot H. Frank, a research engineer at the Center for Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, that makes sense, but how does one get to the floor and lie flat, while in free-fall?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the Plunge Q. If I find myself in a free-falling elevator, is there any position that might increase my chance of survival? (Climbing on top of other people is not an acceptable answer.) A. The best option would be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11277\">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":[7,35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11277","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=11277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}