{"id":6840,"date":"2010-10-22T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2010-10-22T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T08:00:12","slug":"physics-can-save-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6840","title":{"rendered":"Physics Can Save Your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2013215629_hero21m.html\">Driver thanks man who hit him on purpose<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We realized he wasn&#8217;t slowing down, and if he hit someone at full speed, it would&#8217;ve been a very bad scene,&#8221; Innes said. The intersection with Southwest Grady Way was a few hundred yards away. &#8220;He could&#8217;ve very easily unknowingly taken out a whole row of traffic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instinctively, Innes applied his 25 years of experience at Boeing, where he is a manager for the F22 fighter-jet program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best-case scenario is I need to match his speed, get in front of him and let him hit me,&#8221; Innes remembers thinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Pace&#8217;s pickup hit the minivan, and Innes held onto the brakes to halt both vehicles. When they stopped, he knocked on the pickup&#8217;s window to alert Pace, who was by then semiconscious, and got him to unlock the door.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver thanks man who hit him on purpose &#8220;We realized he wasn&#8217;t slowing down, and if he hit someone at full speed, it would&#8217;ve been a very bad scene,&#8221; Innes said. The intersection with Southwest Grady Way was a few &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6840\">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-6840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840","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=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}