{"id":211,"date":"2009-07-23T07:40:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2014-09-14T22:26:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T02:26:57","slug":"realizing-heinleins-the-man-who-sold-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/realizing-heinleins-the-man-who-sold-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Realizing Heinlein&#8217;s &#8220;The Man Who Sold the Moon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike in the original story, this isn&#8217;t going to be just a ploy to get advertisers to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/134969.html\" target=\"_blank\">help fund the first moon shot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BFZHoUVn0i8&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re interested, the logo of your choice could go lunar for as little as the minimum $46,000 bid. (Hurry! Bidding started two days ago.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Update, 24 July<\/b>: For a very interesting discussion of the Apollo program, and the design choices taken, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2009\/07\/bad_blogger_no_entry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Stross&#8217;s blog post<\/a>. Good stuff (even if I&#8217;m way late in linking to it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike in the original story, this isn&#8217;t going to be just a ploy to get advertisers to help fund the first moon shot: &#8220;If you&#8217;re interested, the logo of your choice could go lunar for as little as the minimum $46,000 bid. (Hurry! Bidding started two days ago.)&#8221; Update, 24 July: For a very interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[97,105,70,478],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-science","tag-advertising","tag-apollo","tag-moon","tag-robertheinlein"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27828,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/27828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}