{"id":5841,"date":"2021-07-12T01:32:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T08:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2023-01-14T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T22:15:44","slug":"congratulations-richard-branson-and-or-jeff-bezos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/12\/congratulations-richard-branson-and-or-jeff-bezos\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Richard Branson (and\/or Jeff Bezos)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-198-cleaned-small-600x460.png\" alt=\"branson in spaaace\" class=\"wp-image-5842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-198-cleaned-small-600x460.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-198-cleaned-small-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-198-cleaned-small-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-198-cleaned-small-640x491.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/day-198-cleaned-small.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations, Sir Richard Branson, on your successful space flight! (Yes, yes, I *know* it&#8217;s technically just upper atmosphere, I *know* there&#8217;s no path to orbit (yet) but can we give the man some credit for an awesome achievement?) And I look forward to Jeff Bezos making a similar flight later this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I stand by my earlier statement: the way you guys are doing this, a race, is going to get someone killed, perhaps one of you guys. A rocketship is not a racecar, and moves into realms of physics where we do not have good human intuition. Please, all y&#8217;all, take it easy, and get it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That being said, congratulations on being the first human being to put themselves into space as part of a rocket program that they themselves set in motion. That&#8217;s an amazing achievement, no-one can ever take that away from you, and maybe that&#8217;s why you look so damn happy. Enjoy it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. And day 198, though I&#8217;ll do an analysis of the drawing at a later time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations, Sir Richard Branson, on your successful space flight! (Yes, yes, I *know* it&#8217;s technically just upper atmosphere, I *know* there&#8217;s no path to orbit (yet) but can we give&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,226,193,257,227,230],"tags":[15,260,19,245],"class_list":["post-5841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airships","category-artworks","category-real-life","category-science","category-sketchworks","category-startuppery","tag-artworks","tag-drawing-every-day","tag-hard-science","tag-startuppery","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}