{"id":4698,"date":"2007-01-10T08:58:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T08:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2010-09-02T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T17:35:00","slug":"stephen-hawking-has-the-right-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/stephen-hawking-has-the-right-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking has The Right Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&#038;search=stephen+hawking\">dangerboy Stephen Hawking <\/a>is a burly man and he&#8217;s ready to punch your teeth in.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news87421299.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">This year I&#8217;m planning a zero-gravity flight and to go into space in 2009<\/a>,&#8221; the scientist, who is most famous for his 1988 international best-seller &#8220;A Brief History of Time&#8221;, told The Daily Telegraph newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;zero-gravity flight&#8221; is one in which an aeroplane flies in such a way as to render its passengers temporarily weightless, mimicking the conditions in space.<\/p>\n<p>Hawking&#8217;s trip outside the earth&#8217;s atmosphere depends on the progress of British tycoon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/004802.php\">Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s Virgin Galactic space tourism programme<\/a>, which aims to carry passengers into low-Earth orbit from next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Telegraph said Sir Richard will sponsor Hawking&#8217;s mission, waiving the estimated flight cost of 100,000 pounds (148,000 euros, 193,000 dollars).   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=3490\" class=\"external external_icon\">warren ellis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news87421299.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">physorg<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new dangerboy Stephen Hawking is a burly man and he&#8217;s ready to punch your teeth in. &#8220;This year I&#8217;m planning a zero-gravity flight and to go into space in 2009,&#8221; the scientist, who is most famous for his 1988 international best-seller &#8220;A Brief History of Time&#8221;, told The Daily Telegraph newspaper. A &#8220;zero-gravity flight&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1722,2213],"class_list":["post-4698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-science-it-works-bitches","tag-stephen-hawking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13463,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/13463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}