{"id":810,"date":"2012-02-12T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2012-02-12T09:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T17:00:53","slug":"a-discovery-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2012\/02\/12\/a-discovery-of-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"A Discovery of Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Submitted<\/strong> by friend of the blog, Derek Colanduno<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

So,<\/strong> I used to live in Las Vegas when I was a kid. My best friend Tony’s father was a test pilot for the Air Force out of Nellis Air\u00a0Force Base.<\/p>\n

One<\/strong> day, when I was at his house, some important military\u00a0people showed up at his door to tell the family that his father had died\u00a0while testing a new fighter jet. Tony later became the lead\u00a0pilot for the Thunderbirds air squadron.<\/p>\n

Fast<\/strong> forward to my life now;\u00a0I have been good friends with astronomer Phil Plait since about 2005. Phil was\u00a0able to get a pilot TV Show run on the Discovery Network for his\u00a0program, “Bad Universe”. I was watching the second episode and in part\u00a0of the episode Phil went to Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas to be\u00a0in the passenger seat of a fighter jet to show the effects of G-force\u00a0on the human body. The video cuts to Phil standing near the fighter\u00a0jet and I get to see a pilot coming out to greet him on the tarmac.<\/p>\n

Across<\/strong> the bottom of the screen, “Tony Mulhare”. So, here is one of my\u00a0newest good friends getting to meet my oldest friend on national\u00a0television no less.<\/p>\n

And,<\/strong> to make it ‘funny’ it centered around Las Vegas, of all places!<\/p>\n

[EDITOR:<\/strong> In case you never saw it, Bad Universe was a killer show with a short run. Think Mythbusters, with an astronomy theme and constant use of the phrase, “Holy Haleakala!”]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I used to live in Las Vegas when I was a kid. My best friend Tony’s father was a test pilot for the Air Force out of Nellis Air Force Base.<\/p>\n

One day, when I was at his house, some important military people showed up at his door to tell the family that his father had died while testing a new fighter jet. Tony later became the lead pilot for the Thunderbirds air squadron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1071,1479,588,1480,1481,1482,1483,38,1484,747,1485,435,1486,1487,146],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-air-force","tag-bad-universe","tag-derek-colanduno","tag-discovery","tag-discovery-network","tag-fighter-jet","tag-g-force","tag-las-vegas","tag-nellis-air-force-base","tag-phil-plait","tag-pilot","tag-television","tag-thunderbirds","tag-tony-mulhare","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}