{"id":178523,"date":"2018-11-05T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/05\/maximum-geek-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T23:44:00","slug":"maximum-geek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/05\/maximum-geek-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximum Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/P1MjYc9.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/P1MjYc9.png\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Is that a circular slide rule?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/jUpOKoS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/jUpOKoS.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/>Yep, that&#8217;s a circular slide rule<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GLnBt5u.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GLnBt5u.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/>Also known as an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E6B\">E6B flight computer<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p>I came across the 2nd image online, and thought, &#8220;Is that Mr. Spock using a circular slide rule in the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> century?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why yes, yes it is.<\/p>\n<p>Given Gene Roddenberry&#8217;s background, he flew aircraft in WWII and was an airline pilot for TWA after the war, I&#8217;m thinking that at least one of these probably came from him.<\/p>\n<p>Spock and slide rules:&nbsp; This is like a total geek-gasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is that a circular slide rule? Yep, that&#8217;s a circular slide rule Also known as an E6B flight computer I came across the 2nd image online, and thought, &#8220;Is that Mr. Spock using a circular slide rule in the 23rd century?&#8221; Why yes, yes it is. Given Gene Roddenberry&#8217;s background, he flew aircraft in WWII &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-178523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}