{"id":1066,"date":"2008-02-22T09:43:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T14:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/hey-you-got-your-rubber-in-my-urine\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T14:43:07","slug":"hey-you-got-your-rubber-in-my-urine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/hey-you-got-your-rubber-in-my-urine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey! You got your rubber in my urine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something I have a hard time figuring out.\u00c2\u00a0 A scientist is trying to find a way to make rubber more useful, ends up adding a component of urine to the regular ingredients, and whammo you get <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/Science\/2008\/02\/20\/4862758-cp.html\">self-healing rubber<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 What made him think of that?\u00c2\u00a0 Did he run into a lot of problems during the process and just get pissed off?<\/p>\n<p>I would like to apologize for the use of that most feeble pun.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that makes all of this ok is the reassuring fact that the scientist really hopes to make toys out of this stuff:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The resulting material is a cross between silly putty and a rubber ball&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s certainly what every parent would want.\u00c2\u00a0 I definitely want my kids playing with nothing but piss-rubber toys (which is the trademarked product name) from now on.\u00c2\u00a0I want piss-rubber(tm) stains all over the walls and ceiling from the piss-rubber(tm)\u00c2\u00a0balls, naturally.\u00c2\u00a0Incidentally, piss-rubber(tm) would make a more than natural fit for a material to use to make\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/aw-nuts\/\">rubber truck nuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something I have a hard time figuring out.\u00c2\u00a0 A scientist is trying to find a way to make rubber more useful, ends up adding a component of urine to the regular ingredients, and whammo you get self-healing rubber.\u00c2\u00a0 What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/hey-you-got-your-rubber-in-my-urine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-hc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}