{"id":8473,"date":"2019-09-28T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8473"},"modified":"2019-09-29T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T12:36:16","slug":"the-dream-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8473","title":{"rendered":"The dream is real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s new Starship is not the tall skinny pressurized-aluminum cylinder we&#8217;re used to thinking of a real rocket, but a fat cigar-shaped thing made of stainless steel, with tail fins.<\/p>\n<p>I just listened to an elaborate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6AcE7hBhpYU\">economic and engineering rationale<\/a> for this. And I don&#8217;t believe a word of it.<\/p>\n<p>It had to be that way because Elon Musk grew up on the same Golden Age science fiction magazine cover illustrations I did, and it looks <em>exactly like those.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Has <em>tailfins<\/em>. Freaking <em>tailfins<\/em>. And lands on a pillar of fire just like God and Robert Heinlein (PBUH) intended.<\/p>\n<p>The dream is real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s new Starship is not the tall skinny pressurized-aluminum cylinder we&#8217;re used to thinking of a real rocket, but a fat cigar-shaped thing made of stainless steel, with tail fins. I just listened to an elaborate economic and engineering rationale for this. And I don&#8217;t believe a word of it. It had to be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8473\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The dream is real<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-science-fiction","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8475,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473\/revisions\/8475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}