{"id":72,"date":"2008-09-15T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2008\/09\/15\/pro-easterbrook\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T09:41:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:41:53","slug":"pro-easterbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2008\/09\/15\/pro-easterbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Easterbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2008\/09\/10\/black-holes-in-slate\/\">went after after Gregg Easterbrook<\/a> for promoting intelligent design, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/\">Matt Trawick<\/a> suggested that I should link to a couple of the good things he&#8217;s written about NASA and the space shuttle program.  Here are a few examples.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Easterbrook has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2155164\"> explained why plans for a lunar base make no sense<\/a>.  He wrote more broadly about NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/space\/magazine\/15-06\/ff_space_nasa\">misplaced priorities <\/a>for human space flight.  He&#8217;s been a big space-shuttle skeptic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/features\/2001\/8004.easterbrook-fulltext.html\">since at least 1980<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that he was the one who coined the phrase &#8220;billion-dollar flagpole sitting&#8221; to describe our recent priorities on human space flight, but I can&#8217;t find confirmation of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I went after after Gregg Easterbrook for promoting intelligent design, Matt Trawick suggested that I should link to a couple of the good things he&#8217;s written about NASA and the space shuttle program. Here are a few examples. Recently, Easterbrook has explained why plans for a lunar base make no sense. He wrote more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2008\/09\/15\/pro-easterbrook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pro-Easterbrook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}