{"id":7270,"date":"2018-08-03T07:45:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7270"},"modified":"2018-08-02T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T22:46:48","slug":"snotbot-ftwhales-%f0%9f%9a%81%f0%9f%90%b3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/03\/snotbot-ftwhales-%f0%9f%9a%81%f0%9f%90%b3\/","title":{"rendered":"SnotBot FTWhales! &#x1f681;&#x1f433;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hah\u2014brilliant: <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.whale.org\/pages\/snotbot\">SnotBot<\/a> is a hexacopter drone covered in petri dishes that collects whale exhalations for science:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8_Qpkw3OWeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Popular Science <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/drones-science-research-whale-snot#page-2\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Whale snot, it turns out, is packed with DNA, viruses, hormones, and microbes\u2014all incredibly useful things to a variety of scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, marine biologists employ the same techniques that failed Kerr: A motorboat equipped with long sticks and modified crossbows to collect whale biopsies. But Kerr hopes these flying research robots will soon change that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4nQ4rSrID5I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/NewImage-1.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"351\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8_Qpkw3OWeU\">YouTube 1<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4nQ4rSrID5I\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hah\u2014brilliant: SnotBot is a hexacopter drone covered in petri dishes that collects whale exhalations for science: Popular Science explains: Whale snot, it turns out, is packed with DNA, viruses, hormones, and microbes\u2014all incredibly useful things to a variety of scientists. Typically, marine biologists employ the same techniques that failed Kerr: A motorboat equipped with long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7272,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions\/7272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}