{"id":1113,"date":"2008-11-14T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T05:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2008-11-14T00:44:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T05:44:02","slug":"aussie-aussie-aussie-oy-oy-oy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"Aussie aussie aussie!  Oy oy oy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/OyOyOy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"145\" src=\"\/media\/tn_OyOyOy.png\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 145px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>G&#8217;day mate!\u00a0 What could be better than cooking some shrimp on the barbie and a\u00a0Tallie of amber fluid?\u00a0 Is there a space elevator in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,24642847-661,00.html\">Australia&#8217;s future<\/a>\u00a0or doesn&#8217;t this stand Buckleys?<\/p>\n<p>Money quote from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The Senate Standing Committee on Economics said Australia is missing out on significant innovation and technology opportunities because it lacks a space agency&#8230;among other possible projects highlighted by the committee was the building of a space elevator, essentially an extremely strong cable stretching from the surface up into space, off the coast of Western Australia.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The location mentioned, &#8220;<em>off the coast of Western Australia<\/em>&#8221; has been identified as one of the very best locations to put a Space Elevator (near the equator and very unexciting weather all year &#8217;round) and it&#8217;s\u00a0nearly London to a brick, regardless of who builds the first one, it will be located here.\u00a0 It would make all sorts of sense for the Aussie&#8217;s to participate even though the chosen site is Back of Bourke, opposite the Coat Hanger.<\/p>\n<p>One other item in the article of note &#8211; Australia was the fourth country to launch their own satellite, a fact I did not know.\u00a0 Then, of course, I was reminded of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woomera,_South_Australia\">Woomera<\/a>.\u00a0 Good onya mates!<\/p>\n<p>One other Aussie note; Phil Ragan, co-author\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/423306\">Leaving the Planet by Space Elevator<\/a>, is, I believe,\u00a0an Australian bloke, so perhaps he can help persuade the Australian government to\u00a0Captain Cook\u00a0this idea.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Concept drawing of an ocean port from the LiftPort Archives, <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanhonking.com\/universe\/2005-0427liftport-full.jpg\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0 Picture of\u00a0the Boomer\u00a0from <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/i.treehugger.com\/images\/2007\/5\/24\/kangaroo%20treehugger.gif\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0 Click on it for a larger version.\u00a0 Australian slang from <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koalanet.com.au\/australian-slang.html\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G&#8217;day mate!\u00a0 What could be better than cooking some shrimp on the barbie and a\u00a0Tallie of amber fluid?\u00a0 Is there a space elevator in Australia&#8217;s future\u00a0or doesn&#8217;t this stand Buckleys? Money quote from the article: &#8220;The Senate Standing Committee on Economics said Australia is missing out on significant innovation and technology opportunities because it lacks [&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-1113","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\/1113","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=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}