{"id":407,"date":"2008-04-15T21:44:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T00:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=407"},"modified":"2008-04-15T21:44:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T00:44:03","slug":"ive-always-wondered-how-buck-rogers-pistol-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2008\/ive-always-wondered-how-buck-rogers-pistol-worked","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Always Wondered How Buck Rogers&#8217; Pistol Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-409\" href=\"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/index.php\/2008\/04\/15\/ive-always-wondered-how-buck-rogers-pistol-worked\/flashaaah1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-409\" title=\"flash-Aaah.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/joshuanewmandesign.com\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/flashaaah1.jpg\" alt=\"He'll save every one of us! From inferior plastics!\" width=\"500\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/flashaaah1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/flashaaah1-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; wait, no I haven&#8217;t. But I really love Winchell Chung&#8217;s site <a title=\"Ironically, I haven't read about atomic rockets yet.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrho.com\/rocket\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Atomic Rockets<\/a>. It&#8217;s all sorts of explanations of how science fiction and space opera stuff might or can&#8217;t work. Stuff like <a title=\"Zzzap!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrho.com\/rocket\/rocket3l.html\" target=\"_blank\">laser guns<\/a>, <a title=\"Weedleweedleweedle!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrho.com\/rocket\/rocket3aa.html\" target=\"_blank\">aliens<\/a>, and, of course, <a title=\"Whoosh!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrho.com\/rocket\/rocket3c2.html\" target=\"_blank\">atomic rockets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s full of old SF paperback covers, rational discussion, and a clear deep enjoyment of the subject matter. Check it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; wait, no I haven&#8217;t. But I really love Winchell Chung&#8217;s site Atomic Rockets. It&#8217;s all sorts of explanations of how science fiction and space opera stuff might or can&#8217;t work. Stuff like laser guns, aliens, and, of course, atomic rockets. It&#8217;s full of old SF paperback covers, rational discussion, and a clear deep enjoyment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2008\/ive-always-wondered-how-buck-rogers-pistol-worked\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;ve Always Wondered How Buck Rogers&#8217; Pistol Worked&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-sciencefiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}