{"id":36452,"date":"2022-07-02T10:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36452"},"modified":"2022-07-02T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T15:28:07","slug":"word-of-the-day-803","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/02\/word-of-the-day-803\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rockoon<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Image: Wikipedia<\/strong>.<\/p><\/div>\n

A\u00a0rockoon<\/b>\u00a0(from\u00a0rocket<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0balloon<\/a><\/i>) is a\u00a0solid fuel<\/a>\u00a0sounding rocket<\/a>\u00a0that, rather than being immediately lit while on the ground, is first carried into the\u00a0upper atmosphere<\/a> by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and ignited. This allows the rocket to achieve a higher altitude, as the rocket does not have to move under power through the lower and thicker layers of the atmosphere.\u00a0[Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “On the Ball<\/em><\/a>,” [review of Off The Edge<\/strong><\/em>, by Kelly Weill], Glenn Branch, Skeptical Inquirer<\/strong><\/em> (July\/August 2022, paywall):<\/p>\n

Not to be unduly captious, but there are a handful of minor problems with the book. The description of a rockoon as a \u201crocket attached to weather balloons that would carry it upward after the rocket fuel burned out\u201d (153) is backward\u2014the rocket is fired after the balloons carry it as high as they can\u2014which suggests a deficiency in Weill\u2019s grasp of basic physics. Toward the end of the book, Weill speculates that flat-earthers are motivated in part by a desire for a cozy cosmos; perhaps so, but a similar diagnosis is available to flat-earthers, who have been known to argue that mainstream astronomy\u2019s insistence on the vastness of the universe is intended to scare, and thus enable control over, the public. And it is annoying that there is no index. But these, again, are minor problems. Weill\u2019s Off the Edge is not only a worthy successor to Garwood\u2019s Flat Earth and Schadewald\u2019s The Plane Truth but also a worthwhile contribution in its own right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rockoon: A\u00a0rockoon\u00a0(from\u00a0rocket\u00a0and\u00a0balloon) is a\u00a0solid fuel\u00a0sounding rocket\u00a0that, rather than being immediately lit while on the ground, is first carried into the\u00a0upper atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and ignited. This allows the rocket to achieve a higher altitude, as the rocket does not have to move under \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36453,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36452\/revisions\/36453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}