{"id":13830,"date":"2023-03-21T02:29:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T01:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/a-severe-strain-on-the-credulity-reprint-of-1920-editorial\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T02:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T01:29:50","slug":"a-severe-strain-on-the-credulity-reprint-of-1920-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/a-severe-strain-on-the-credulity-reprint-of-1920-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"A Severe Strain On The Credulity (Reprint Of 1920 Editorial)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                A Severe Strain on the Credulity<\/p>\n<p>As a method of sending a missile to the higher, and even to the highest<br \/>\nparts of the earth&#8217;s atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard&#8217;s rocket<br \/>\nis a practicable and therefore promising device.  It is when one<br \/>\nconsiders the multiple-charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that one<br \/>\nbegins to doubt &#8230; for after the rocket quits our air and really<br \/>\nstarts on its journey, its flight would be neither accelerated nor<br \/>\nmaintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left.<br \/>\nProfessor Goddard, with his &#8220;chair&#8221; in Clark College and countenancing<br \/>\nof the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to<br \/>\nre-action, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum<br \/>\nagainst which to react &#8230; Of course he only seems to lack the<br \/>\nknowledge ladled out daily in high schools.<br \/>\n                &#8212; New York Times Editorial, 1920<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-13830 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='13830' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-13830 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-13830 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Severe Strain on the Credulity As a method of sending a missile to the higher, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-13830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-othernonsense","tag-english","wpcat-7-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13831,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13830\/revisions\/13831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}