{"id":1297,"date":"2009-10-18T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2009-10-18T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T16:15:10","slug":"between-a-rock-and-a-climber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"Between a rock and a climber&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/LaserMotiveLogo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"56\"  width=\"151\" \/>You&#8217;ve heard the expression &#8220;Between a rock and hard place&#8221;, I&#8217;m sure, but have you ever heard of being  &#8220;Between a rock and a Climber&#8221;?\u00a0 No?\u00a0 Well, neither had I until a saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?p=420\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> on the LaserMotive blog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/ClimbToHelicopter.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_ClimbToHelicopter.gif\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"161\"  width=\"200\" \/><\/a>It seems that the LaserMotive team was able to work with a local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rei.com\" target=\"_blank\">Recreational Equipment Inc (REI)<\/a> store to do some additional testing on their climber; i.e. having their climber ascend along the REI Climbing wall.\u00a0 An interesting post, complete with pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Also,\u00a0 LaserMotive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?p=436\" target=\"_blank\">tells us<\/a> about another  sponsor of theirs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverspringsorganics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Silver Spring Organics<\/a>.\u00a0 Not only did this company provide space for long range laser tests, they were the enlightened souls who provided the venue for the recent, successful tests of the new Space Elevator Games &#8216;raceway&#8217;.\u00a0 Thank you Silver Springs Organics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard the expression &#8220;Between a rock and hard place&#8221;, I&#8217;m sure, but have you ever heard of being &#8220;Between a rock and a Climber&#8221;?\u00a0 No?\u00a0 Well, neither had I until a saw this post on the LaserMotive blog. It seems that the LaserMotive team was able to work with a local Recreational Equipment Inc [&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-1297","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\/1297","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=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}