{"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\/\">Hermann Burchard<\/a>, mathematics professor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okstate.edu\/\">Oklahoma State<\/a>, has suggested 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\">cosmic-sized airbag to bounce incoming 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 (unintentional) funniest line in a movie. In <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0120591\">Armageddon<\/a>, all the science gurus at NASA are trying to figure out how to avert the annihilation of all life on earth, when someone says (roughly), \u201cWhat we need here is the world\u2019s best deep-core oil driller.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hermann Burchard, mathematics professor at Oklahoma State, has suggested that we invent a cosmic-sized airbag to bounce incoming metors away from earth. Hmmm.\u2026 That reminds me of what a friend of mine thinks might be the (unintentional) funniest line in a movie. In Armageddon, all the science gurus at NASA are trying to figure out \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/30\/this-sounds-suspiciously-like-a-video-game-concept\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThis Sounds Suspiciously Like a Video Game Concept\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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}