{"id":10752,"date":"2012-04-05T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/05\/ponderosa-knack-bonanza-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:04:01","slug":"ponderosa-knack-bonanza-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/05\/ponderosa-knack-bonanza-astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponderosa Knack!  Bonanza Astronomy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bonanza-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 270px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bonanza-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5728037310095969890\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hzPRGV0HbMk\">this episode<\/a>, and I think most of you guys will too. I was alerted to it by an article by famed comet hunter David Levy. Wow! I never would have thought that in a 1962 episode of the cowboy show <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bonanza<\/span>, we would find amateur astronomy and experiments to determine the speed of sound and the speed of light. Amazing. There is no radio in this so it is not really The Knack, but young Mr. Michelson (yes, the Nobel Prize winner) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">does<\/span> set up a shack-like workshop and he <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">is <\/span>trying to measure c. So this is all very Knack-like. There is also a very nice moral to this story, a moral that is related to our notion of an International Brotherhood of Electrical Wizards. <\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Three cheers for Ben Cartwright!<\/p>\n<p>You can find the episode here. It runs for 48 minutes:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hzPRGV0HbMk\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hzPRGV0HbMk<br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hzPRGV0HbMk\"><br \/>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this episode, and I think most of you guys will too. I was alerted to it by an article by famed comet hunter David Levy. Wow! I never would have thought that in a 1962 episode of the cowboy show Bonanza, we would find amateur astronomy and experiments to determine the speed of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/05\/ponderosa-knack-bonanza-astronomy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ponderosa Knack!  Bonanza Astronomy!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,103,39,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-knack-stories","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10754,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions\/10754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}