{"id":12197,"date":"2007-01-09T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/the-physics-of-buckaroo-banzai\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T23:46:00","slug":"the-physics-of-buckaroo-banzai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/the-physics-of-buckaroo-banzai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Physics of &#8220;Buckaroo Banzai&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As this <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/12\/19\/0317237&amp;from=rss\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Slashdot<\/i> post reveals<\/a>, the &ldquo;oscillation overthruster&rdquo; that allowed eponymous movie star Buckaroo Banzai to pilot his vehicle through a mountain is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekazon.com\/banzai\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">grounded in sound scientific principles<\/a>.  Who&rsquo;d have thunk it?<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/movies\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-116654085973251299?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this Slashdot post reveals, the &ldquo;oscillation overthruster&rdquo; that allowed eponymous movie star Buckaroo Banzai to pilot his vehicle through a mountain is grounded in sound scientific principles. Who&rsquo;d have thunk it? tags: movies 80s science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}