{"id":1379,"date":"2010-06-17T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demonstro.us\/blog\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2010-06-17T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:54:11","slug":"messianic-hero-from-water-world-may-in-fact-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demonstro.us\/productions\/2010\/06\/messianic-hero-from-water-world-may-in-fact-save-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Messianic hero from &#039;Water World&#039; may in fact save us"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--YouTube Error: bad URL entered-->\n<p>Fifteen Years ago, Kevin Costner was drinking his own pee.\u00a0 Filtered pee, of course, for his epic 1995 film &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0114898\/\" target=\"_blank\">Water World<\/a>&#8220;, which is best know for being an epic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/waterworld\/\" target=\"_blank\">flop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But wait!\u00a0 Could there be some benefit from this bleak look into a future without dryland?<\/p>\n<p>It seems that when Kevin was in the aqua-survivalist mood he invested in a developing a pump technology which separates oil from water.\u00a0 Costner, an adamant environmentalist, may have only wanted to clean up the water from the myriad of gasoline explosions that took place on the open water set when he gave $20 million to his scientist brother.<\/p>\n<!--YouTube Error: bad URL entered-->\n<p>Just another example of <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstro.us\/blog\/?p=1094\">how the movies are advancing the human race!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen Years ago, Kevin Costner was drinking his own pee.\u00a0 Filtered pee, of course, for his epic 1995 film &#8220;Water World&#8220;, which is best know for being an epic flop. But wait!\u00a0 Could there be some benefit from this bleak look into a future without dryland? It seems that when Kevin was in the aqua-survivalist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p30YEa-mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demonstro.us\/productions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demonstro.us\/productions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demonstro.us\/productions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demonstro.us\/productions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demonstro.us\/productions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demonstro.us\/productions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demonstro.us\/productions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demonstro.us\/productions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demonstro.us\/productions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}