{"id":37817,"date":"2010-08-07T11:23:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=37817"},"modified":"2010-08-07T11:29:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:29:14","slug":"how-fast-is-the-beacon-of-gondor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/08\/07\/37817-how-fast-is-the-beacon-of-gondor\/","title":{"rendered":"How fast is the Beacon of Gondor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-37818\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/08\/07\/37817-how-fast-is-the-beacon-of-gondor\/beacons\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-37818 no-lazyload\" title=\"beacons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/beacons-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>So you think <em>you&#8217;re<\/em> a geek? Associate physics professor <strong>Rhett Allain<\/strong> recently posted an entertaining analysis of the speed and distance of the lighting of the Beacons of Gondor in his <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dotphysics\/2010\/07\/how_fast_is_the_beacon_of_gond.php\">dotphysics blog<\/a>. Even if mathematical equations make you cross-eyed, his tongue-in-cheek logic still makes it an entertaining read:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Lord of the Rings trilogy came on TV again recently.  My wife and I  can&#8217;t help but to watch this even though we have it on DVD.  Anyway, I  was thinking about the part where Gondor sends a signal to Rohan asking  them for military aid.  Since this was before the invention of email,  they had to do it with a signal fire.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hint: also read the comments at the end of his blog entry: lots of geeky Tolkien goodness. Thanks to Finding Frodo for bringing this to our attention by posting about it on our <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_threaded;post=272541;sb=post_time;so=DESC;\">message boards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you think you&#8217;re a geek? Associate physics professor Rhett Allain recently posted an entertaining analysis of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,495,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr-movies","category-miscellaneous","category-rotk-movie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9PX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}