{"id":11552,"date":"2012-04-25T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2012-04-25T05:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T10:47:00","slug":"monkey-launching-capability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11552","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Launching Capability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ANoKOmGOong?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ANoKOmGOong?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>First place I saw this didn&#8217;t mention what the combustion reaction was, but via <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/12\/04\/launching-barrels-like-rockets\">kottke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you mix calcium carbide and water, it produces acetylene. Acetylene is extremely flammable and can launch 55-gallon drums into the air when ignited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video First place I saw this didn&#8217;t mention what the combustion reaction was, but via kottke: If you mix calcium carbide and water, it produces acetylene. Acetylene is extremely &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11552\">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":[35,39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552","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=11552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}