{"id":12449,"date":"2012-09-24T05:12:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T10:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12449"},"modified":"2012-09-24T05:12:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T10:12:38","slug":"the-old-man-is-snoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12449","title":{"rendered":"The Old Man is Snoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/what-if.xkcd.com\/12\/\">xkcd&#8217;s <em>what if<\/em>:  What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you were floating in the center of this sphere during this episode, you wouldn\u2019t have felt anything unusual up until now. It\u2019d be pretty dark in the middle, but if you had enough time (and lung capacity) to swim a few hundred meters out toward the edge, you\u2019d be able to make out the dim glow of daylight.<\/p>\n<p>As the raindrop approached the ground, the buildup of air resistance would lead to an increase in pressure that would make your ears pop. But seconds later, when the water contacted the surface, you\u2019d be crushed to death\u2014the shock would briefly create pressures exceeding those at the bottom of the Marianas Trench.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xkcd&#8217;s what if: What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop? If you were floating in the center of this sphere during this episode, you wouldn\u2019t have felt anything unusual up until now. It\u2019d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12449\">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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449","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=12449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}