{"id":188206,"date":"2010-11-13T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/13\/its-the-fracking-juxtaposition-of-a-contrail-and-forced-perspective\/"},"modified":"2010-11-13T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T03:57:00","slug":"its-the-fracking-juxtaposition-of-a-contrail-and-forced-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/13\/its-the-fracking-juxtaposition-of-a-contrail-and-forced-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Fracking Juxtaposition of a Contrail and Forced Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 360px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:365248\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" height=\"301\" width=\"360\"><\/embed><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Once Again, Jon Stewart Does News Better than the News Networks<\/span><\/div>\n<p>You know, the earth is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">round<\/span>, and if a jet is passing directly over you as it comes over the horizon, its contrail looks vertical.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we know what this was.  It was a slow speed chase involving a white Ford Bronco.<\/p>\n<p>As Jon Stewart notes, quoting the helicopter pilot who filmed it, this &#8220;rocket plume&#8221; continued for about <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">10 f%$#ing minutes<\/span>, which would put the missile (assuming a 1 G acceleration) would put the missile about 1800 km (100 mi) down range.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;Facepalm&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once Again, Jon Stewart Does News Better than the News Networks You know, the earth is round, and if a jet is passing directly over you as it comes over the horizon, its contrail looks vertical. Of course, we know what this was. It was a slow speed chase involving a white Ford Bronco. As &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,974,1064,1180,1028,982,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-missiles","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-stupid","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188206"}],"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=188206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}