{"id":582322,"date":"2010-05-27T20:19:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=16415"},"modified":"2010-05-27T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:19:59","slug":"followup-scramjet-test-a-success-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582322","title":{"rendered":"Followup: Scramjet test a success | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/05\/airforce_scramjet.jpg\" alt=\"airforce_scramjet\" title=\"airforce_scramjet\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16143\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory?id=10756873\">ABC news is reporting<\/a> that the Air Force tested <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/05\/24\/what-is-the-air-force-doing-with-space\/\">the X-51A scramjet<\/a> yesterday, and that it successfully fired for 200 seconds, blowing away &#8212; literally &#8212; the previous record of 12 seconds. <\/p>\n<p>Very cool. So screw getting your own jet pack. When do we get our own Mach 6 personal scrampacks<sup><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~3\/Pa9hANez6_w\/#footnote\">*<\/a><\/sup>?<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip o&#8217; the windscreen to <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/05\/27\/1411251\/USAF-Scramjet-Hits-Mach-6-Sets-Record\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"footnote\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\">\n<font size=\"-2\"><em><sup>*<\/sup>Scrampack&trade; is a trademark of Phil Plait and Bad Astronomy, LLC. Any use except by the military, which could bomb my neighborhood at 7000 kph, is prohibited.<\/em><\/font><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"> <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_q7AnFop1cG8rIdqEcfm1YRNH-Y\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_q7AnFop1cG8rIdqEcfm1YRNH-Y\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_q7AnFop1cG8rIdqEcfm1YRNH-Y\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_q7AnFop1cG8rIdqEcfm1YRNH-Y\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/cyDg39iCugA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/Pa9hANez6_w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC news is reporting that the Air Force tested the X-51A scramjet yesterday, and that it successfully fired for 200 seconds, blowing away &#8212; literally &#8212; the previous record of 12 seconds. Very cool. So screw getting your own jet pack. When do we get our own Mach 6 personal scrampacks*? Tip o&#8217; the windscreen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}