{"id":1030,"date":"2008-06-24T00:14:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T05:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2008-06-24T00:14:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T05:14:15","slug":"wires-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-wires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Wires?  We don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; wires&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite movies (by one of my favorite directors) is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096754\/\">The Abyss<\/a>.\u00a0 The plot was first-rate, the acting was top-notch and the special effects were awesome.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever seen the movie, you&#8217;ll certainly recall one of\u00a0its most memorable scenes; \u00a0&#8216;Bud&#8217; Brigman (Ed Harris) is trying to disarm a nuclear bomb.\u00a0 He&#8217;s being guided by a Navy SEAL who is telling him to cut &#8220;&#8230;the blue wire with the white stripe, not, I repeat NOT the black wire with the yellow stripe.&#8221;\u00a0 And, of course, the only light he has to work by is a chemical\u00a0one which renders the colors indistinguishable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps\u00a0this scene\u00a0was Tom Nugent&#8217;s inspiration for the post he recently put up on the LaserMotive blog; &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?p=120\">Which Wire Do You Cut<\/a>&#8220;?<\/p>\n<p>And, if that wasn&#8217;t Tom&#8217;s reference, perhaps it can be found <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WireDilemma\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite movies (by one of my favorite directors) is The Abyss.\u00a0 The plot was first-rate, the acting was top-notch and the special effects were awesome. If you&#8217;ve ever seen the movie, you&#8217;ll certainly recall one of\u00a0its most memorable scenes; \u00a0&#8216;Bud&#8217; Brigman (Ed Harris) is trying to disarm a nuclear bomb.\u00a0 He&#8217;s being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}