{"generator":"GNU social 1.1.3-beta3","title":"Conversation","totalItems":1,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/user\/3","displayName":"Stephen Sekula","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/status.hackerposse.com\/avatar\/3024-original-20160716033345.jpeg","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/jpeg","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/status.hackerposse.com\/avatar\/3024-original-20160716033345.jpeg","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/jpeg","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/status.hackerposse.com\/avatar\/3024-48-20160716073205.jpeg","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/jpeg","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/status.hackerposse.com\/avatar\/3024-24-20160716033835.jpeg","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/jpeg","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"3024"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/status.hackerposse.com\/avatar\/3024-original-20160716033345.jpeg","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/jpeg","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Physicist, Research Group Manager at SNOLAB, Professor of Physics at Queen's University, dark matter hunter, neutrino watcher, writer, runner, programmer, blogger, sometimes a drummer.","url":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/steve","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"steve","displayName":"Stephen Sekula","note":"Physicist, Research Group Manager at SNOLAB, Professor of Physics at Queen's University, dark matter hunter, neutrino watcher, writer, runner, programmer, blogger, sometimes a drummer.","addresses":{"formatted":"Sudbury, ON, Canada"},"urls":[{"type":"homepage","value":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net","primary":"true"}]}},"content":"The viral broomstick challenge is a dumb hoax (@washingtonpost) and 1 semester of introductory physics would be more than enough to see why. A simple lesson in mass, distribution of mass, and the local constancy of gravity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2020\/02\/11\/viral-broomstick-challenge-works-every-single-day\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2020\/02\/11\/viral-broomstick-challenge-works-every-single-day\/\" class=\"attachment\" rel=\"nofollow external\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2020\/02\/11\/viral-broomstick-challenge-works-every-single-day\/<\/a>","generator":{"id":"tag:status.net,2009:notice-source:ostatus","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ostatus"}},"id":"tag:chirp.cooleysekula.net,2020-02-12:noticeId=288913:objectType=note","object":{"id":"tag:chirp.cooleysekula.net,2020-02-12:noticeId=288913:objectType=note","objectType":"note","content":"The viral broomstick challenge is a dumb hoax (@washingtonpost) and 1 semester of introductory physics would be more than enough to see why. A simple lesson in mass, distribution of mass, and the local constancy of gravity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2020\/02\/11\/viral-broomstick-challenge-works-every-single-day\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2020\/02\/11\/viral-broomstick-challenge-works-every-single-day\/\" class=\"attachment\" rel=\"nofollow external\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2020\/02\/11\/viral-broomstick-challenge-works-every-single-day\/<\/a>","url":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/notice\/288913","status_net":{"notice_id":"139708"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/conversation\/197733","notice_info":{"local_id":"139708","source":"ostatus"}},"published":"2020-02-12T12:31:01+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"Hacker Poesy","url":"http:\/\/status.hackerposse.com\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/notice\/288913"}],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/status.hackerposse.com\/conversation\/139708","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}