{"id":30899,"date":"2016-10-09T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/how-an-australian-college-student-did-what-nasa-couldnt"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:23:24","slug":"how-an-australian-college-student-did-what-nasa-couldnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/how-an-australian-college-student-did-what-nasa-couldnt","title":{"rendered":"How an Australian College Student Did What NASA Couldn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-an-australian-college-student-did-what-nasa-couldnt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paddy Neumann kind of looks like someone who\u2019s really into brewing beer. But back when he was a third year student at the University of Sydney, the now Dr. Neumann started on a course of experimentation that would see him beat innovations by NASA\u2019s top scientists.<\/p>\n<p>For his final research project, Neumann was working with the university\u2019s plasma discharge, mapping the electric and magnetic charges around it. He noticed the particles moving through the machine were going <em>really<\/em> fast. In fact, they were clocking in at around 14 miles per second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI looked at my numbers from that final year project and thought, <em>You could probably make a rocket out of this<\/em>,\u201d he says. Particularly when you consider that conventional hydrogen-oxygen rockets only get around 2.8 miles per second.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@flipboard\/flip.it%2FFfvXTr-how-an-australian-college-student-did-w\/f-b65c234903%2Fvice.com\">https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@flipboard\/flip.it%2FFfvXTr-how-an-aus...2Fvice.com<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paddy Neumann kind of looks like someone who\u2019s really into brewing beer. But back when he was a third year student at the University of Sydney, the now Dr. Neumann started on a course of experimentation that would see him beat innovations by NASA\u2019s top scientists. For his final research project, Neumann was working with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60125,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30899\/revisions\/60125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}