{"id":118,"date":"2012-06-11T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/06\/11\/astronaut-don-pettit-plays-didgeridoo-in-spaaaaaaace\/"},"modified":"2012-06-11T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T12:55:09","slug":"astronaut-don-pettit-plays-didgeridoo-in-spaaaaaaace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/06\/astronaut-don-pettit-plays-didgeridoo-in-spaaaaaaace\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Don Pettit Plays Didgeridoo in SPAAAAAAACE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uz_vvdCVPqA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s another really lovely orbital water experiment with Don Pettit:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B1u3SYmWbqo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAside: My mom is here to watch my newish baby while a friendly giant crushes my basement floor in order to swap out a collapsed sewer line.  Mom glanced at this video and exclaimed, &#8220;He&#8217;s on the moon?!?&#8221; When I explained that, no, he was on the International Space Station, Mom was visibly let down.  Guy standing on an inert hunk of rock and playing the digeridoo?  *OMG!* Guy sitting in the crowning technological achievement of our species and playing a didgeridoo? *Menh.*<br \/>\nIn a nutshell, this is everything that&#8217;s wrong with the Baby Boom Generation, folks.<br \/>\n(via <a title=\"Technology - Megan Garber - Don Pettit Is About to Become Your New Favorite Astronaut - The Atlantic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/05\/don-pettit-is-about-to-become-your-new-favorite-astronaut\/257953\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5910031\/a-water-droplet-and-a-space-station-are-the-ultimate-way-to-visualize-sound\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIncidentally, Project 11 my book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1593272596\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=daverinel-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1593272596\">Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred: Seriously Geeky Stuff to Make with Your Kids<\/a> is basically everything you&#8217;ll ever need to know about building an ad hoc hardware store didgeridoo.  Sadly, the publishers made me cut the chapter on building your own space station&#8211;for liability reasons&#8211;so I can only really get you half-way to Don Pettit territory right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here&#8217;s another really lovely orbital water experiment with Don Pettit: Aside: My mom is here to watch my newish baby while a friendly giant crushes my basement floor in order to swap out a collapsed sewer line. Mom glanced at this video and exclaimed, &#8220;He&#8217;s on the moon?!?&#8221; When I explained that, no, he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/06\/astronaut-don-pettit-plays-didgeridoo-in-spaaaaaaace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Astronaut Don Pettit Plays Didgeridoo in SPAAAAAAACE!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}