{"id":12600,"date":"2012-10-15T03:35:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T08:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12600"},"modified":"2012-10-15T03:35:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T08:35:20","slug":"i-wish-that-physics-guy-would-stop-telling-what-i-cant-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12600","title":{"rendered":"I Wish That Physics Guy Would Stop Telling Me What I Can&#039;t Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empiricalzeal.com\/2012\/10\/12\/can-we-build-a-more-efficient-airplane-not-really-says-physics\/\">Can we build a more efficient airplane? Not really, says physics.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a plane hurtles through the air, it carves out a tube of air, much of which is deflected downwards by the wings. Throw down enough air fast enough, and you can stay afloat, just as the downwards thrust of a rocket pushes it up. <strong>The key is that you have to throw down a lot of air (like a glider or an albatross), or throw it down really fast (like a helicopter or a hummingbird)<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we build a more efficient airplane? Not really, says physics. As a plane hurtles through the air, it carves out a tube of air, much of which is deflected downwards by the wings. Throw down enough air fast enough, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12600\">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-12600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600","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=12600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}