A few days ago I blogged<\/a> about the report from the Australian Senate Standing Committee on Economics saying that the Aussies should consider building a Space Elevator off their NW coast.\u00a0 This report has been picked up by some more of the I also recently blogged<\/a> about Michael Laine’s report on the time he recently spent at the International Space University.\u00a0 Michael has now posted<\/a> the “complete and\u00a0unabridged” version of the story on the LiftPort blog.\u00a0 As an aside, it’s just nice to see this blog being used again…<\/p>\n And finally, in response to a couple of emails I’ve received, no, I don’t have any further news on the Japan Space Elevator Conference<\/a>.\u00a0 I promise I’ll post any updates as soon as I receive them.<\/p>\n (Iron man drawing from <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Samurai Kangaroo picture from <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Click on either for a larger version.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some updates on stories\/posts recently seen\u00a0on this blog… First of all, Spaceward wants to give a big shout-out to Mari\u00a0Kimura for doing all of the English->Japanese translation for the Spaceward website (which I blogged about yesterday).\u00a0 Thanks Mari – they look great! A few days ago I blogged about the report from the Australian Senate […]<\/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-1120","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\/1120","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=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"\/media\/tn_SamuraiKangaroo.jpg\")
<\/a>Australian press and Philip Ragan (co-author of Leaving the Planet by Space Elevator<\/a> and someone who I suggested might be able to put in a favorable word about this project to the Australian government) was quoted.\u00a0 News.com.au weighs in with their opinion here<\/a> while psfk\u00a0discusses it\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0 And Tribune of the Plebs directly links to my blog post while pointing out<\/a>\u00a0that my attempt at using Aussie slang might not have been all that accurate…\u00a0 Hey, I’m just a\u00a0poor Seppo – take pity on me please… \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0His suggestion of a joint Japanese\/Australian Space Elevator has a lot going for it; two technologically advanced and rich countries, a growing Japanese space program and close access to one of the best sites proposed to site a Space Elevator earthport.\u00a0\u00a0 Oy Oy Oy!!!<\/p>\n![](\"\/media\/tn_IronManTheEnd.jpg\")
<\/a>And\u00a0my local comic book store PROMISED me that tomorrow they would have\u00a0the Iron Man – The End <\/a>\u00a0issue\u00a0I had backordered.\u00a0 I spoke with Michael Laine a few days ago and he had great fun taunting me by saying “how good” the issue was and “how sorry” he was that I was unable to read it yet and, no, he “wasn’t going to tell me” what happened because he didn’t want to spoil it for me, but yes, “it was all about building a Space Elevator”, etc., etc., etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Arrrggghhh!\u00a0 In the meantime, here’s a review<\/a> of the issue by someone who didn’t exactly find it enthralling…\u00a0 I’ll have to wait and see, of course, but I think I’ll go with Michael’s take on this one.<\/p>\n