{"id":39741,"date":"2024-01-26T18:21:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T00:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39741"},"modified":"2024-01-26T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T00:21:13","slug":"word-of-the-day-936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/01\/26\/word-of-the-day-936\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Autophage engines<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rockets that eat themselves may be on the way. To reach orbit, a rocket must hoist its own mass and the mass of its propellant as well as whatever payload it is trying to carry into space. But if a rocket could burn its own parts as fuel, it could free up capacity for transporting more important science projects and supplies. A team of engineers has built a prototype of one of these \u201cautophage engines\u201d for the first time.\u00a0<em>[&#8220;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2411631-prototype-rocket-engine-burns-itself-up-for-fuel-as-it-flies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prototype rocket engine burns itself up for fuel as it flies<\/a>,&#8221; Leah Crane, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (20 January 2024, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rather puts a kink in the whole reusability argument, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autophage engines: Rockets that eat themselves may be on the way. To reach orbit, a rocket must hoist its own mass and the mass of its propellant as well as whatever payload it is trying to carry into space. But if a rocket could burn its own parts as fuel, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/01\/26\/word-of-the-day-936\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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-39741","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\/39741","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=39741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39742,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39741\/revisions\/39742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}