{"id":28916,"date":"2022-01-10T14:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=28916"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:19:53","slug":"the-rockets-own-massive-weight-holds-it-down-and-its-heavy-enough-that-it-wont-tip-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=28916","title":{"rendered":"The rocket\u2019s own massive weight holds it down, and it\u2019s heavy enough that it won\u2019t tip over."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I asked Gerard Bruno, Arianespace\u2019s VP of French Guiana operations, how the rocket is secured. Turns out it\u2019s not! Like, at all. The rocket\u2019s own massive weight holds it down, and it\u2019s heavy enough that it won\u2019t tip over. Everyone on site seems completely fine about this<\/p>&mdash; Marina Koren (@marinakoren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marinakoren\/status\/1474021598009167877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploration-spaciale","category-inusite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28917,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28916\/revisions\/28917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}