{"id":1029,"date":"2008-06-22T00:05:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T05:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2008-06-22T00:05:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T05:05:57","slug":"space-elevators-as-explained-by-the-midnight-tutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Space Elevators as explained by the Midnight Tutor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"313\" src=\"\/media\/MidnightTutorLogo.jpg\"  height=\"71\" style=\"width: 313px; height: 71px\" \/>A couple of months ago, we heard the &#8220;Mobile Home Astrophysicist&#8217;s&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=983\">take<\/a> on Space Elevators.\u00a0 Recently posted on YouTube, we now have the concept of a Space Elevator explained by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighttutor.com\">Midnight Tutor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His explanation was a\u00a0bit hazy as to how climbers would actually ascend the cable and his cable is 48K miles long instead of the 60K miles.\u00a0 But the gist of\u00a0his explanation\u00a0is generally correct and does serve as a &#8216;quick and dirty&#8217; introduction to the concept.<\/p>\n<p>He also talks about using the Space Elevator to put payloads into LEO, scramjets and other fun and games stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SG3nGFnE7oc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, we heard the &#8220;Mobile Home Astrophysicist&#8217;s&#8221; take on Space Elevators.\u00a0 Recently posted on YouTube, we now have the concept of a Space Elevator explained by the Midnight Tutor. His explanation was a\u00a0bit hazy as to how climbers would actually ascend the cable and his cable is 48K miles long instead [&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-1029","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\/1029","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=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}