{"id":1306,"date":"2009-11-01T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T19:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2009-11-01T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T19:44:58","slug":"payload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"Payload…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, one of the criteria for winning, assuming that a Climber can make the ascent in the required minimum time, is how much payload the climber carries – it figures into the prize-winning calculation.<\/p>\n

Given that we have three teams here, and that the rules for payload are very lax (basically, nothing that has or has had a heartbeat), it is to be expected that each team will be a bit creative in deciding what they will use for payload.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The Kansas City Space Pirates are using BB’s – weighed into bags.\u00a0 The picture shows KCSP team member Frank Smith weighing the BB’s – different bags for different weights.\u00a0 Rumor has it that they also maybe using Susan B. Anthony Dollars too, if they get very confident…<\/p>\n

<\/a>Team LaserMotive is using Poker Chips.\u00a0 As a big fan of Texas Hold’em (yes, I admit it, I watch them play cards on TV), I am particularly fond of this solution.\u00a0 And as team member Jordin Kare (shown holding the Poker chips) said to me; “If we don’t win the prize money in the climb, perhaps we can win it playing cards<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Finally there is USST.\u00a0 They are as usual, very tight-lipped about this.\u00a0 They tell me that they haven’t worried about carrying payload, just about making 5 meters\/second.\u00a0 Yeah, right, sure…\u00a0 This picture shows some of their team members looking around for something – perhaps it’s their payload…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, one of the criteria for winning, assuming that a Climber can make the ascent in the required minimum time, is how much payload the climber carries – it figures into the prize-winning calculation. Given that we have three teams here, and that the rules for payload are very lax (basically, nothing that has or […]<\/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-1306","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\/1306","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=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}