{"id":1006,"date":"2008-05-21T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2008-05-21T00:05:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T05:05:24","slug":"an-australian-space-elevator-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"An Australian Space Elevator Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video on YouTube a couple of days ago:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H_v9BgU16Y4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>I found it quite interesting, but had no idea in what context it was built.\u00a0 I contacted the person who uploaded this video to YouTube and asked them what it was all about.\u00a0 &#8216;Caitlin2022&#8217; replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Just a group of students from the University of New South Wales, we had a project to build a scaled down version of the elevator to climb a 7m tether.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping we see an Aussie team in the Space Elevator competition someday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And yes, the video is &#8216;sideways&#8217;.\u00a0 It would have been more appropriate had it been upside down \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video on YouTube a couple of days ago: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H_v9BgU16Y4[\/youtube] . I found it quite interesting, but had no idea in what context it was built.\u00a0 I contacted the person who uploaded this video to YouTube and asked them what it was all about.\u00a0 &#8216;Caitlin2022&#8217; replied: &#8220;Just a group of students from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}