{"id":5787,"date":"2013-11-12T09:24:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T14:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"artificial-gravity-ask-big-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/artificial-gravity-ask-big-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Gravity?  Ask the Big Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3786\/10819666924_b6346fd596_b_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dog, bath, bathing,\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3786\/10819666924_b6346fd596_n_d.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cochise pouts through the afterbath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As scientists the world over ponder the problems that must be surmounted so mankind can thrive in outer space, the debilitating effects of weightlessness is high up on the list of priorities.\u00a0 However, I submit that if they want to find the secret to generating a field of artificial gravity, they need look no farther than the nearest large dog.\u00a0 It never ceases to amaze me how a 90 pound Bulldog can suddenly increase his or her weight to around 200 pounds at the mere sight of a bath tub.<\/p>\n<p>If scientists can figure out how a dog can increase their gravitational attraction at will, they should have the secret to creating artificial gravity in spaceships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As scientists the world over ponder the problems that must be surmounted so mankind can thrive in outer space, the debilitating effects of weightlessness is high up on the list of priorities.&nbsp; However, I submit that if they want to find the secret to generating a field of artificial gravity, they need look no farther &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/artificial-gravity-ask-big-dog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Artificial Gravity?  Ask the Big Dog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21518,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions\/21518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}