{"id":1417,"date":"2010-08-13T12:35:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2010-08-13T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T18:35:07","slug":"another-tether-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Another Tether entry"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Just in the past few minutes, the third tether entry in the Strong Tether competition confirmed that they will compete.\u00a0 A picture thumbnail of the nanotube loop being entered is included in this post (click on it for a full-size version).<\/p>\n

As you can see, this has little in common with the meter-sized loops from previous competitions.\u00a0 The Spaceward Foundation changed the rules this year to encourage more participation – and with three, confirmed entries, all of the carbon nanotubes, I think I can say it succeeded.<\/p>\n

Prize levels are different, depending on the weight of the entry and it’s specific strength.\u00a0 The different types of entries have been a challenge for Spaceward in adapting their “Tether Torture Rack” to them, but they have adapted as necessary.<\/p>\n

And now, full disclosure on my part.\u00a0 The entry picture in this post is from Odysseus Technologies, a company I have invested in.\u00a0 So, I will admit to some bias in rooting for\u00a0this particular entry to win ?.<\/p>\n

However, the important thing is that SOMEONE wins, because if they do, this means that the state-if-the-art in this field has been advanced, and, as the lack of strong enough material to build a Space Elevator is the ‘long pole in the tent’, a winner would mean that the day a Space Elevator can actually be built becomes more real.<\/p>\n

Still no details on uStream – I’ll post that as soon as I have it, promise…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in the past few minutes, the third tether entry in the Strong Tether competition confirmed that they will compete.\u00a0 A picture thumbnail of the nanotube loop being entered is included in this post (click on it for a full-size version). As you can see, this has little in common with the meter-sized loops from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","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=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}