{"id":23233,"date":"2008-03-03T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/03\/03\/what-do-rocket-scientists-say-when-they-want-to-say-that-something-isnt-hard\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:51:03","slug":"20080303-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080303-01\/?p=23233","title":{"rendered":"What do rocket scientists say when they want to say that something isn&#8217;t hard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An idiom that entered the English language (or at least the U.S. dialect of it) in the latter half of the twentieth century is &#8220;it&#8217;s not rocket science&#8221;, meaning that something is not hard.<\/p>\n<p>But what do rocket scientists say when they want to say that something isn&#8217;t hard?<\/p>\n<p>I actually ask this question of a mechanical engineer who works on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sea_Launch\">Sea Launch<\/a> project. The answer: &#8220;Heck, most rocket science isn&#8217;t rocket science.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not rocket science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-23233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&#8217;s not rocket science.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}