{"id":13809,"date":"2013-06-24T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13809"},"modified":"2013-06-24T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T08:00:28","slug":"death-to-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13809","title":{"rendered":"Death to Monkeys!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cxvsHNRXLjw\">MIT video<\/a> (embedding is disabled) doing the famous &#8220;monkey drop&#8221;experiment \u2014 a monkey in a tree drops when a shot is fired. Because the bullet and the monkey both accelerate at g, you should aim straight at the monkey. I remember doing this in the basement of my neighbor&#8217;s house, with a blow-gun and a solenoid dropping a metal target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT video (embedding is disabled) doing the famous &#8220;monkey drop&#8221;experiment \u2014 a monkey in a tree drops when a shot is fired. Because the bullet and the monkey both accelerate at g, you should aim straight at the monkey. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13809\">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":[39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809","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=13809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}