{"id":1050,"date":"2008-07-18T17:15:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T22:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2008-07-18T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T22:15:39","slug":"2008sec-day-1-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"2008SEC &#8211; Day 1 &#8211; Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the lunch break today, Ben Shelef of the Spaceward Foundation talked to the crowd about the Space Elevator Games, both Power-Beaming \/ Climber and Tether competitions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2008SEC\/tn_2008SECDay1 049.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/>In this picture, however, Ben is responding to a presentaton given earlier by Ivan Bekey, highlighting potential problems to the Space Elevator, this case\u00a0space debris.\u00a0 Ben is pointing out that the problem is not as bad as feared; the great majority of debris is so small that it&#8217;s damage to the elevator is &#8216;manageable&#8217;, while the larger objects are so infrequent that moving the elevator can take care of it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2008SEC\/tn_2008SECDay1 051.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/>Mmmm, chocolate fudge cake.\u00a0 A note that Randy Lieberman (who spoke earlier) was responsible for the delicious lunch today.\u00a0 Thanks Randy!<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the lunch break today, Ben Shelef of the Spaceward Foundation talked to the crowd about the Space Elevator Games, both Power-Beaming \/ Climber and Tether competitions. In this picture, however, Ben is responding to a presentaton given earlier by Ivan Bekey, highlighting potential problems to the Space Elevator, this case\u00a0space debris.\u00a0 Ben is pointing [&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-1050","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\/1050","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=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}