{"id":5834,"date":"2010-02-04T07:19:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:20:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:20:54","slug":"brick-rumored-to-be-front-runner-for-2010-nobel-prize-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/brick-rumored-to-be-front-runner-for-2010-nobel-prize-in-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick rumored to be front-runner for 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brick, who is quoted on this blog every week, is rumored to be a front-runner for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, based on words of advice she gave that may have saved our planet and its moon.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks ago, she said, &#8220;Obama&#8217;s going to bomb the moon to see if there&#8217;s water.\u00a0 But that could mess up gravity.&#8221;\u00a0 Some people, who lacked the necessary background in physics to appreciate the intellectual depth of her quote, required further clarification, and she gave it.\u00a0 &#8220;I mean, if the moon got thrown off course, it would screw shit up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, these words apparently made it to President Obama.\u00a0 While he may have never met Brick personally, he instantly recognized sage advice from a learned citizen, and removed the moon mission from the NASA budget.<\/p>\n<p>If Brick does indeed win the Physics prize, it is believed that she will be the first Nobel laureate in history to have once been a waitress at Hooters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick, who is quoted on this blog every week, is rumored to be a front-runner for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, based on words of advice she gave that may have saved our planet and its moon. Weeks ago, she said, &#8220;Obama&#8217;s going to bomb the moon to see if there&#8217;s water.\u00a0 But that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/brick-rumored-to-be-front-runner-for-2010-nobel-prize-in-physics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brick rumored to be front-runner for 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->