{"id":708,"date":"2013-02-19T10:45:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wri3d.com\/main\/?p=708"},"modified":"2014-02-26T23:05:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T07:05:33","slug":"a-page-out-of-tech-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"A page out of tech history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing!!\u00a0 I am not easily brought to tears.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not quite sure why <a title=\"SR71 -- An amazing page out of US technology\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5511236\/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr+71-blackbird\" target=\"_blank\">this story did<\/a>, but I&#8217;ll hazard a guess.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard for me to wrap my mind around numbers like Mach 3.5 (~2700mph!) even with modern technology, and I&#8217;m a physicist with a bit of an inkling about what these numbers mean.\u00a0 Yet this plane was flying missions as early as 1966 (the year my wife was born and about the time that &#8220;color television&#8221; became popular)!<\/p>\n<p>The technology and craftsmanship that gave birth to this plane came from a man (Kelly Johnson) who was forged in the fires of the generation known as the &#8220;Greatest Generation&#8221;.\u00a0 The men and women from this time who were contemporaries of my grandparents were amazing individuals.\u00a0 Their grit and ingenuity has yet to be matched by any generation recorded&#8211;either before or since.\u00a0 They weren&#8217;t perfect, but they never claimed to be even thought their technological, military, and social accomplishments are quite heady.\u00a0 So <a title=\"SR71 -- An amazing page out of US technology\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5511236\/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr+71-blackbird\" target=\"_blank\">take a moment to read this page out of history<\/a> and reflect on how we can find that same fire inside of us that they had.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing!!\u00a0 I am not easily brought to tears.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not quite sure why this story did, but I&#8217;ll hazard a guess.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard for me to wrap my mind around numbers like Mach 3.5 (~2700mph!) even with modern technology, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=708\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A page out of tech history<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[582],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ku-xlarge.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9PzL0-bq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}