{"id":647,"date":"2006-02-08T15:51:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T20:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2006-02-10T20:06:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T01:06:24","slug":"the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about giving new meaning to the phrase &#8220;this is a dynamite book&#8221;. From the <em>New Scientist<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8690&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A very unusual ink-jet printer cartridge, containing explosive ink, has been patented by Qinetiq, the commercial spin-off of the British Ministry of Defence. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And to think people are worried about guns and armor. Now we can just print explosives directly! And next up it&#8217;ll be something far deadlier: <em>Invisible<\/em> exploding ink! OMGBBQ! (note: I&#8217;ve never used that exclamation, but I just couldn&#8217;t resist)<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now that the obvious is out of the way, here&#8217;s something cool that can be done:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ganging hundreds or thousands of fuses together could even make a miniature rocket engine capable of precisely adjusting the orbital position of a spacecraft, the company says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oooooooo.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. Wait. Guess we&#8217;ll need to be on the lookout for miniature warheads. I&#8217;d suggest keeping an eye on that quiet, reclusive little neighbor boy from here on out.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/02\/08\/qinetiq-exploding-ink-could-enable-point-and-click-fuses\/\" target=\"blank\">Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about giving new meaning to the phrase &#8220;this is a dynamite book&#8221;. From the New Scientist (Link): A very unusual ink-jet printer cartridge, containing explosive ink, has been patented by Qinetiq, the commercial spin-off of the British Ministry of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=647\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}