{"id":651337,"date":"2013-04-09T10:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=224222"},"modified":"2013-04-09T10:03:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:03:38","slug":"buttercup-and-westleys-plunge-into-dry-quicksand-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651337","title":{"rendered":"Buttercup and Westley\u2019s Plunge into Dry Quicksand, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dry_quicksand\">Dry quicksand<\/a>&#8216;s prevalence in nature may be debated, but it has been created by scientists &#8211; so it exists. Of course, if you&#8217;ve ever watched <em>The Princess Bride<\/em> or <em>Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome<\/em>, you know dry quicksand&#8217;s potentially devastating effects. <\/p>\n<p>Well, here&#8217;s a nice demonstration into the Jenga-like principles behind dry quicksand from geologist Matt Kuchta.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63471076?portrait=0\" width=\"616\" height=\"346\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user4730482\">Matt Kuchta<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/04\/08\/what-makes-dry-quicksand-so-de.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=DtJqaGpt1x4:YuzWAmtqMIo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=DtJqaGpt1x4:YuzWAmtqMIo:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=DtJqaGpt1x4:YuzWAmtqMIo:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=DtJqaGpt1x4:YuzWAmtqMIo:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=DtJqaGpt1x4:YuzWAmtqMIo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=DtJqaGpt1x4:YuzWAmtqMIo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=DtJqaGpt1x4:YuzWAmtqMIo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=DtJqaGpt1x4:YuzWAmtqMIo:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=DtJqaGpt1x4:YuzWAmtqMIo:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/DtJqaGpt1x4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dry quicksand&#8216;s prevalence in nature may be debated, but it has been created by scientists &#8211; so it exists. Of course, if you&#8217;ve ever watched The Princess Bride or Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, you know dry quicksand&#8217;s potentially devastating effects. Well, here&#8217;s a nice demonstration into the Jenga-like principles behind dry quicksand from geologist Matt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651337","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\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}