{"id":1049,"date":"2008-07-18T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2008-07-18T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T17:50:14","slug":"2008sec-day-1-keynote-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"2008SEC &#8211; Day 1 &#8211; Keynote Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conference started off with the keynote address by Dr. Bradley C. Edwards.\u00a0 Dr. Edwards summarized developments of how we got to where we are today in Space Elevator development and things that hopefully \/ should happen in the near future.\u00a0 A few pictures:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2008SEC\/2008SECDay1%20003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2008SEC\/tn_2008SECDay1%20003.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>Here is Dr. Edwards in front of his opening slide.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceeelevatorblog.com\/images\/2008SEC\/2008SECDay1%20006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2008SEC\/tn_2008SECDay1%20006.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Edwards with another slide.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2008SEC\/2008SECDay1%20013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2008SEC\/tn_2008SECDay1%20013.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>THIS is interesting.\u00a0 There is now a study being done by Sotheby&#8217;s International to see if a Space Elevator &#8216;ride&#8217; might be viable.\u00a0 People who have visited DisneyWorld or MGM and have been on their various theme rides (riding through asteroids or whatever) know that something like this can be made very realistic.\u00a0 This &#8216;ride&#8217; could be combined with an audience-viewable research center and the profits of all this could go to real Space Elevator research.\u00a0 This is a really cool idea and I hope it comes to fruition.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll keep you all posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conference started off with the keynote address by Dr. Bradley C. Edwards.\u00a0 Dr. Edwards summarized developments of how we got to where we are today in Space Elevator development and things that hopefully \/ should happen in the near future.\u00a0 A few pictures: Here is Dr. Edwards in front of his opening slide. . [&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-1049","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\/1049","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=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}