{"id":257,"date":"2010-10-22T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2012-11-17T10:47:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T10:47:58","slug":"heroic-physics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Heroic Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the world <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2013215629_hero21m.html\">isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Driving to a Mariners game, Duane Innes saw a pickup ahead of him drift across lanes of traffic, sideswipe a concrete barrier and continue forward on the inside shoulder at about 40 mph.<\/p>\n<p>A manager of Boeing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s F22 fighter-jet program, Innes dodged the truck, then looked back to see that the driver was slumped over the wheel. He knew a busy intersection was just ahead, and he had to act fast. Without consulting the passengers in his minivan \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153there was no time to take a vote\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Innes kicked into engineer mode.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Basic physics: If I could get in front of him and let him hit me, the delta difference in speed would just be a few miles an hour, and we could slow down together,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Innes explained.<\/p>\n<p>So he pulled in front of the pickup, allowed it to rear-end his minivan and brought both vehicles safely to a stop in the pull-off lane.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the world isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so bad. Driving to a Mariners game, Duane Innes saw a pickup ahead of him drift across lanes of traffic, sideswipe a concrete barrier and continue forward on the inside shoulder at about 40 mph. A manager of Boeing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s F22 fighter-jet program, Innes dodged the truck, then looked back to see\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=257\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,53],"tags":[11,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fussylogic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}