{"id":262,"date":"2007-04-26T08:40:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2007-12-13T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T18:09:43","slug":"hawking-to-go-weightless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Hawking to Go Weightless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will go on a &#8220;zero-gravity&#8221; flight on a refitted jet today.  The jet creates the experience of microgravity in 25-second bursts of steep plunges over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For someone like me whose muscles don&#8217;t work very well, it will be bliss to be weightless,&#8221; Hawking told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to say that the jet does 10-15 of these plunges on a single flight, and passengers pay $3,750 for the privilege (the fee has been waived for Hawking).  Me, I&#8217;d be willing to pay that amount to anyone who promised that I&#8217;d never, <EM>ever<\/EM> have to be in a jet that was doing sharp plunges.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070425\/ap_on_sc\/hawking_flight\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will go on a &#8220;zero-gravity&#8221; flight on a refitted jet today. The jet creates the experience of microgravity in 25-second bursts of steep plunges over the Atlantic Ocean. &#8220;For someone like me whose muscles don&#8217;t work very well, it will be bliss to be weightless,&#8221; Hawking told The Associated Press in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}