{"id":1100,"date":"2008-10-20T14:06:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T19:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2008-10-20T14:06:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T19:06:31","slug":"men-in-sheds-rule-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Men in sheds rule the world&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"162\" src=\"\/media\/NSSLogo.jpg\"  height=\"72\" style=\"width: 162px; height: 72px\" \/>Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, the BBC Video with the National Space Society (NSS) Space Elevator Team is now available (I blogged about this earlier, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1097\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The theme is that the Space Elevator would make a wonderful vehicle for lifting Solar Power Satellites into space.\u00a0 The video is in two parts;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3OKbeb2Rank&amp;feature=related[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TVM31dvngmE&amp;feature=related[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see Matt Abrahms (from the old StarClimber team) again &#8211; Hi Matt!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the quote in the title of this post?\u00a0 That comes from the narrator of these videos, James May.\u00a0 He also has that wonderful pronunciation of our state of Maryland (&#8220;Mare-eee-land&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, the BBC Video with the National Space Society (NSS) Space Elevator Team is now available (I blogged about this earlier, here). The theme is that the Space Elevator would make a wonderful vehicle for lifting Solar Power Satellites into space.\u00a0 The video is in two parts; [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3OKbeb2Rank&amp;feature=related[\/youtube] [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TVM31dvngmE&amp;feature=related[\/youtube] . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","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=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}