{"id":1292,"date":"2009-10-09T15:30:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2009-10-11T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T19:33:04","slug":"squares-are-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Squares are evil, but SpongeBob SquarePants isn&#8217;t&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/MovingSkyscraper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_MovingSkyscraper.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"100\" height=\"200\"  \/><\/a>These are cool&#8230;\u00a0 I stumbled across some pictures posted on Flickr that are artists conception of moving skyscrapers that travel up and down multiple Space Elevators.\u00a0 I followed the Flickr link back to the website and discovered &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.squaresareevil.com\/search\/label\/evoloarch?max-results=100\" target=\"_blank\">Squares are evil<\/a>&#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It looks like these pictures \/ drawings were entered in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.competitions.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=376%3Aevolo-07-housing-architectural-competition&amp;Itemid=63\" target=\"_blank\">2007 Housing Architectural competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The level of detail in this work reminds me of the Base Station designs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1192\" target=\"_blank\">I posted about<\/a> earlier.\u00a0 At some point, I need to get someone to start finding these online designs and building an entry about them at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorwiki.com\" target=\"_blank\">Space Elevator Wiki<\/a>.\u00a0 This type of forward-thinking will be very helpful in the eventual real design of a Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/SpongeBobSquarePantsElevator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_SpongeBobSquarePantsElevator.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"120\" height=\"200\"  \/><\/a>Any takers for this project out there?\u00a0 If so, please contact me at ted [at] spaceelevatorblog.com.<\/p>\n<p>And here is a picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/spongebob.nick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpongeBob SquarePants<\/a> taking a trip to the moon in (I think) a Space Elevator.\u00a0 Not as much detail as the artist drawings, but you got to love it all the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Drawing picture thumbnail taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squaresareevil.com\/search\/label\/evoloarch?max-results=100\" target=\"_blank\">Squares are Evil website<\/a>.\u00a0 Click on the thumbnail for a larger version or visit their website to see this and many other conceptual drawings they have created.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(SpongeBob SquarePants picture thumbnail taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragon55\/3228112812\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a>.\u00a0 Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are cool&#8230;\u00a0 I stumbled across some pictures posted on Flickr that are artists conception of moving skyscrapers that travel up and down multiple Space Elevators.\u00a0 I followed the Flickr link back to the website and discovered &#8220;Squares are evil&#8220;&#8230; It looks like these pictures \/ drawings were entered in a 2007 Housing Architectural competition. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-pictures-drawings-animations-music-humor-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}