{"id":1404,"date":"2010-07-27T20:43:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T02:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2010-07-27T20:43:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T02:43:01","slug":"weve-reached-cnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve reached CNET&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/CNETLogo.gif\" width=\"77\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"80\"  \/>The news that both Yuri Artsutanov and Jerome Pearson will be attending the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorconference.org\" target=\"_blank\">Space Elevator Conference<\/a> has reached the lofty realm of CNET.<\/p>\n<p>From Chris Matyszczyk&#8217;s CNET <strong><em>Technically Incorrect<\/em><\/strong> blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Artsutanov was apparently the first, in the early 1960s, to posit the idea of attaching cables to a satellite and creating a two-way elevator between us and the great beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pearson, in 1975, did his own thinking on the subject while at NASA and published &#8220;The Orbital Tower: A Spacecraft Launcher Using The Earth&#8217;s Rotational Energy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since then, the thinking appears to have solidified. As the conference&#8217;s Web site puts it: &#8220;The Space Elevator uses a carbon nanotube ribbon that stretches from the surface of the earth to a counterweight in space. Climbers ascend the ribbon lifting cargo and passengers to earth orbits and launching spacecraft to distant planets.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am not sure whether this includes Pluto, but I am very sure that, if it does not, this should be a serious offense.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes Chris, we consider Pluto a very worthy destination, regardless of whether or not it&#8217;s considered a planet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire blog posting <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17852_3-20011636-71.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news that both Yuri Artsutanov and Jerome Pearson will be attending the upcoming Space Elevator Conference has reached the lofty realm of CNET. From Chris Matyszczyk&#8217;s CNET Technically Incorrect blog: &#8220;Artsutanov was apparently the first, in the early 1960s, to posit the idea of attaching cables to a satellite and creating a two-way elevator [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","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=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}