{"id":1331,"date":"2009-11-20T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2009-11-21T02:35:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T08:35:48","slug":"this-time-its-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This time, it&#8217;s personal&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/AngryBull.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/tn_AngryBull.gif\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 128px\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"128\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Or, so\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorgames.org\/this-time-its-personal\/\">that&#8217;s what it says<\/a> over at the official site of the Space Elevator Games.<\/p>\n<p>The Climber \/ Power-Beaming competition has already been tentatively scheduled for next year, for the week of May 10th.<\/p>\n<p>This is double-plus cool.\u00a0 LaserMotive has already proved that they&#8217;re the real deal.\u00a0 The Kansas City Space Pirates have built a kick-ass tracking system and now just need to upgrade their climber to complement it.\u00a0 And, who knows what the USST team is thinking?\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been the best performers for the first three games, the last two just barely missing out on the prize-money.\u00a0 It must rankle a bit for them to see LaserMotive walk away with a cool $900K&#8230;\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re now on a mission to reclaim their glory days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s on! (again)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, if you visit the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorgames.org\">official site of the Games<\/a>, you&#8217;ll note that the picture gallery (upper left) and movie\/video gallery (upper right) have been enhanced and added to.\u00a0 Lots of new stuff from the just-completed games &#8211; check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, so\u00a0that&#8217;s what it says over at the official site of the Space Elevator Games. The Climber \/ Power-Beaming competition has already been tentatively scheduled for next year, for the week of May 10th. This is double-plus cool.\u00a0 LaserMotive has already proved that they&#8217;re the real deal.\u00a0 The Kansas City Space Pirates have built a [&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-1331","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\/1331","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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}