{"id":440,"date":"2008-07-25T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=440"},"modified":"2008-07-25T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:24:21","slug":"fear-of-the-tiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2008\/fear-of-the-tiny","title":{"rendered":"Fear of the Tiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L17Ox4FQTkM&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L17Ox4FQTkM&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry. This will only be used to monitor evildoers.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hey, and that reminds me:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2006\/12\/07\/magazine\/10boom.600.jpg\" alt=\"Boomerang drone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is from <a title=\"Boomerang drone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/10\/magazine\/10section1A.t-8.html\" target=\"_blank\">a New York Times article<\/a> from 2006. Man, the evildoers must be shaking in their boots!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the Phantom Sentinel takes flight, it looks like an awkward boomerang \u2014 a set of three small blades. It spins in a circle, faster and faster as it ascends into the sky. Then, when it reaches about 50 feet, it whirls so fast that something remarkable happens: it vanishes right before your very eyes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing we&#8217;re <a title=\"FISA\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act\" target=\"_blank\">protected by the US constitution<\/a> from being spied upon by our own government! Otherwise, we&#8217;d be in really big trouble!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry. This will only be used to monitor evildoers. Oh, hey, and that reminds me: This is from a New York Times article from 2006. Man, the evildoers must be shaking in their boots! When the Phantom Sentinel takes flight, it looks like an awkward boomerang \u2014 a set of three small blades. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2008\/fear-of-the-tiny\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fear of the Tiny&#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":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}