{"id":7916,"date":"2011-02-09T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2011-02-09T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T08:00:10","slug":"the-non-physics-of-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7916","title":{"rendered":"The Non-Physics of Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2283469\/pagenum\/all\">Space Stasis:  What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The development of rockets \u2014 driven by war and the invention of nuclear weapons, and the relationship the story has with recent economics and innovation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The above circumstances provide a remarkable example of path dependency. Had these contingencies not obtained, rockets with orbital capability would not have been developed so soon, and when modern societies became interested in launching things into space they might have looked for completely different ways of doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Before dismissing the above story as an aberration, consider that the modern petroleum industry is a direct outgrowth of the practice of going out in wooden, wind-driven ships to hunt sperm whales with hand-hurled spears and then boiling their heads to make lamp fuel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation. The development of rockets \u2014 driven by war and the invention of nuclear weapons, and the relationship the story has with recent economics and innovation. The above &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7916\">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":[9,10,21,39,40,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-history","category-physics","category-politics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916","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=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}