{"id":975,"date":"2002-08-30T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2002-08-31T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/30\/this-sounds-suspiciously-like-a-video-game-concept\/"},"modified":"2002-08-30T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2002-08-31T02:42:12","slug":"this-sounds-suspiciously-like-a-video-game-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/30\/this-sounds-suspiciously-like-a-video-game-concept","title":{"rendered":"This Sounds Suspiciously Like a Video Game Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.okstate.edu\/~burchar\/\">Her\u00admann Bur\u00adchard<\/a>, math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okstate.edu\/\">Okla\u00adhoma State<\/a>, has sug\u00adgest\u00aded that we invent a <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&amp;cid=573&amp;ncid=757&amp;e=8&amp;u=\/nm\/20020829\/od_nm\/airbags_dc_1\">cos\u00admic-sized airbag to bounce incom\u00ading metors away <\/a>from earth.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>That reminds me of what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownefamily.net\/main.asp\">a friend of mine<\/a> thinks might be the (unin\u00adten\u00adtion\u00adal) fun\u00adni\u00adest line in a movie. In <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0120591\">Armaged\u00addon<\/a>, all the sci\u00adence gurus at NASA are try\u00ading to fig\u00adure out how to avert the anni\u00adhi\u00adla\u00adtion of all life on earth, when some\u00adone says (rough\u00adly), \u201cWhat we need here is the world\u2019s best deep-core oil driller.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her\u00admann Bur\u00adchard, math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Okla\u00adhoma State, has sug\u00adgest\u00aded that we invent a cos\u00admic-sized airbag to bounce incom\u00ading metors away from earth. Hmmm.\u2026 That reminds me of what a friend of mine thinks might be the (unin\u00adten\u00adtion\u00adal) fun\u00adni\u00adest line in a movie. In Armaged\u00addon, all the sci\u00adence gurus at NASA are try\u00ading to fig\u00adure out \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/30\/this-sounds-suspiciously-like-a-video-game-concept\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThis Sounds Sus\u00adpi\u00adcious\u00adly Like a Video Game Con\u00adcept\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}