{"id":1332,"date":"2009-11-21T14:53:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T20:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2015-08-19T20:36:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T02:36:20","slug":"fox-news-coverage-of-the-space-elevator-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Fox News coverage of the Space Elevator Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 192px;\" src=\"\/media\/tn_FoxNews_Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"192\" \/>On the first day of the recently completed Space Elevator Games, there were several reporters and cameras (still and video) at the ISF (the conference center where Bryan and I did the first two days of live coverage of the Games over uStream).<\/p>\n<p>One young lady was from ABC, another from AP and\u00a0still another\u00a0from Fox News.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t see a whole lot of coverage from ABC (but I&#8217;m still going through video clips) and the AP reporter somehow carried away the &#8216;fact&#8217; that there was a team &#8216;from Alaska&#8217; that was competing (that was funny &#8211; after that report went out, I got calls from two local reporters in Alaska wanting to know how to contact the &#8216;local team&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>However, Fox News did a lot of coverage of this &#8211; the reporter, Christina Gonzalez, did the interviews (including\u00a0one with\u00a0yours truly) and the best clip I&#8217;ve seen so far is the one below.\u00a0 One reason I like it, of course, is because they actually spelled my name correctly &#8211; not something that I&#8217;m used to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Space Elevator Games news coverage\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N_jR2w8KkdM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so easy to sound stupid on TV.\u00a0 I&#8217;m talking about using a space elevator to &#8220;colonize the moon or &#8216;the&#8217; Mars&#8221;&#8230; Doh!\u00a0 I wanted to say &#8216;the moon or the rest of the solar system&#8217; but tried to change it on the fly to &#8220;Mars&#8221; and wound up with &#8216;the Mars&#8217;.\u00a0 Oh well &#8211; I think I got the main point across.\u00a0 A Space Elevator should be built to haul large amounts of stuff into space on an ongoing basis.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a &#8216;carbon railway&#8217; to outer space and that&#8217;s what we need to think of it as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of the recently completed Space Elevator Games, there were several reporters and cameras (still and video) at the ISF (the conference center where Bryan and I did the first two days of live coverage of the Games over uStream). One young lady was from ABC, another from AP and\u00a0still another\u00a0from Fox [&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-1332","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\/1332","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=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}