{"id":1845,"date":"2008-03-10T18:20:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T02:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/10\/geostationary-banana-over-texas-2\/"},"modified":"2012-03-10T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T06:08:00","slug":"geostationary-banana-over-texas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/10\/geostationary-banana-over-texas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Geostationary Banana Over Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it odd that this downright silly post follows such a very very serious post about Lucille Rathyen. Some truths: You&#8217;re born. You live. You die. How well that middle part goes is entirely up to you.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/geostationary-banana-over-texas\/\">reported previously<\/a> that the Geostationary Banana Over Texas crew was busy. Well, it seems that Caesar Saez and crew is really trying to do it. There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assurance_contract\">assurance contract<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepoint.com\/\">ThePoint.com<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepoint.com\/campaigns\/art-for-the-21st-century-geostationary-banana-over-texas\">The GBOT Team will float a giant banana over Texas if we raise $1,500,000<\/a>. They&#8217;ve got a video on their site that implies they are really trying to do it! Here&#8217;s a local copy:<\/p>\n<p id=\"player1\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\">Get the latest Flash Player<\/a> to see this player.<\/p>\r\n<noscript><p>[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]<\/p><\/noscript>\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\tdocument.getElementById(\"player1\").style.display = \"\";\r\n\t\r\n\tvar s1 = new SWFObject(\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/flv-embed\/flvplayer.swf\",\"player1\",\"480\",\"340\",\"7\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"wmode\",\"transparent\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"allowscriptaccess\",\"always\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"allowfullscreen\",\"true\");\r\n\ts1.addVariable(\"height\",\"340\");\r\n\ts1.addVariable(\"width\",\"480\"); \n\ts1.addVariable(\"file\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/PhaseIII.flv\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"image\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/PhaseIII.jpg\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"link\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/PhaseIII.flv\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"overstretch\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"showstop\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"showdownload\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"autostart\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"bufferlength\",\"8\");\r\n\ts1.write(\"player1\");\r\n<\/script>\n<p>I&#8217;d pay at LEAST $25 to see a 300 meter long banana in geostationary orbit over Texas. I put myself in for $25 and said I&#8217;d chip in more when they answered a couple questions like what the actual conditions for &#8220;success&#8221; were.<\/p>\n<p>Are you in? (update 3-10-12: sadly, the geostationarybananaovertexas.com website exists no more so I removed the link)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it odd that this downright silly post follows such a very very serious post about Lucille Rathyen. Some truths: You&#8217;re born. You live. You die. How well that middle part goes is entirely up to you. I reported previously that the Geostationary Banana Over Texas crew was busy. Well, it seems that Caesar Saez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}