{"id":1205,"date":"2009-06-01T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2009-06-01T11:19:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:19:29","slug":"a-message-from-usst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"A message from USST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/usst.usask.ca\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">USST website<\/a>, a &#8220;Message from the President&#8221; was recently posted.\u00a0 An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We have the basics of the logistics figured out but once we get a final date and a bit more information we can finalize the plans. It will be nice for the team to work towards a date instead of just working all the time without a real end in sight.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the date of the competition IS now established, I&#8217;m sure the USST team is now very busy &#8216;finalizing their plans&#8217;.\u00a0 This team has to be considered as one of the favorites, considering their &#8216;best-in-show&#8217; performances in all of the previous Climber \/ Power-Beaming competitions.\u00a0 The video below is their best performance from the 2007 Games held near Salt Lake City in Utah.\u00a0 They needed to be to the top in&lt; 50 seconds but arrived in ~54 seconds &#8211; very close indeed.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jFx_mWCpa9o[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ll be almost certainly running the competition during the day, we won&#8217;t have any of these cool night shots this time around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the USST website, a &#8220;Message from the President&#8221; was recently posted.\u00a0 An excerpt: &#8220;We have the basics of the logistics figured out but once we get a final date and a bit more information we can finalize the plans. It will be nice for the team to work towards a date instead of just [&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-1205","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\/1205","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=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}