{"id":1080,"date":"2007-10-27T22:12:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T03:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2007-10-27T22:42:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T03:42:38","slug":"pumpkin-drop-2007-scrapbook-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Drop 2007 Scrapbook, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/drop07_team-muse.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nPurple Panda and her father with the Team Muse pumpkin capsule: basically, a big cardboard box on the outside, a ten-pound pumpkin in a smaller cardboard box on the inside, and lots of popcorn in between.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/drop07_team-muse-rc.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nSame shot, with Purple Panda and Robert.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/drop07-launch.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAfter hours of waiting in cold wind and rain, the big moment arrived. On the roof of West Virginia University&#8217;s 11-story engineering building, Pan used a rake-like pusher to shove the capsule into free fall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/drop07_ground-crew.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe capsule smacked down near the target intact, and the ground crew went to work extracting the pumpkin. For a few anxious seconds, we feared that our elaborate packaging would cause them to exceed the 30-second time limit, but they made it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/drop07_debris-pile.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAlas, the news was bad: our pumpkin had not survived. The capsule wound up in the debris pile along with about 80 percent of the other entrants&#8217; devices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/Images\/drop07-musepa-1.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAfter a hot lunch at Applebee&#8217;s, we drove north to the fabled hamlet of Muse, Pennsylvania, where Pan filmed <i>everything<\/i>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark, fuzzy photos taken with a disposal camera, but they give a general idea of what it was like to be there. (Better ones are coming soon.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmfpmuseblog-business","category-nonrandom-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}