{"id":1024,"date":"2008-06-10T00:30:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T05:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2008-06-10T00:30:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T05:30:47","slug":"more-space-elevator-potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"More Space Elevator potpourri…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I forgot to mention that Simon Vanden Bussche, emailing me from Belgium, was the first\u00a0one to correctly guess what\u00a0‘work in progress’ (documented here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>) was.\u00a0\u00a0Simon has previously contributed to this blog (via providing the\u00a0Dutch\u00a0translation for ‘Space Elevator’) and\u00a0has also written an article about the first Space Elevator Conference held in Europe last year (chronicled here<\/a>).\u00a0 Thank you Simon!<\/p>\n

The\u00a0picture, above,\u00a0is a thumbnail\u00a0of a poster\u00a0which was mounted on the Space Elevator Games Venue exhibit.\u00a0 It contain’s Ben Shelef’s thoughts on the value of asteroids to humanity.\u00a0 Click on the thumbnail to get a larger, readable version of the picture.<\/p>\n

We’re up to 23!\u00a0 Dan Leafblad from the Kansas City Space Pirates has sent me translations for ‘Space Elevator’ in six additional languages, Finnish, Korean, Romanian, Hindi, Czech and Greek.\u00a0 Thanks Dan!<\/p>\n

And last but not least, Tom Nugent (and his wife Elizabeth – I do think she had something to do with this), of LiftPort and LaserMotive fame,\u00a0welcomed the latest addition to their family, Howard Antares Nugent.\u00a0 If you want to see all the details about ‘fun and games’ with their new baby, check out Not In Kansas Anymore<\/a>…\u00a0 Congratulations guys!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I forgot to mention that Simon Vanden Bussche, emailing me from Belgium, was the first\u00a0one to correctly guess what\u00a0‘work in progress’ (documented here, here, here and here) was.\u00a0\u00a0Simon has previously contributed to this blog (via providing the\u00a0Dutch\u00a0translation for ‘Space Elevator’) and\u00a0has also written an article about the first Space Elevator Conference held in Europe last […]<\/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-1024","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\/1024","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=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}