{"id":1467,"date":"2011-02-26T14:35:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T20:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2011-02-28T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T05:13:00","slug":"an-oldie-but-goodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"An oldie but goodie&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video is several years old, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve linked to it before on the blog.\u00a0 It is a 5+ minute long presentation, narrated by the astronomer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson\" target=\"_blank\">Neil deGrasse Tyson<\/a>.\u00a0 It gives a very quick overview of carbon nanotubes and how they are grown in a furnace (and then pulled off to longer lengths) and then talks about the 2007 Space Elevator Games &#8211; Climber \/ Power-Beaming competition held near Salt Lake City, Utah.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kl083LAYnoU[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit depressing to realize that the state of the art in growing long, strong nanotubes hasn&#8217;t advanced that much in the last few years, but we have every reason to hope that is now starting to change.\u00a0 The upcoming Space Elevator competition &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/offices\/oct\/early_stage_innovation\/centennial_challenges\/tether\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Strong Tether challenge<\/a> looks like it is going to have its strongest field of contenders yet.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p><em>28Feb2011 Update &#8211; As noted in the Comments by Brian Turner, the &#8216;original&#8217; version of this video can be accessed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/space\/space-elevator.html\" target=\"_blank\">PBS website here<\/a>.\u00a0 There are also links to other Space Elevator related broadcasts and videos and webpages that have more information about the Space Elevator.\u00a0 Thanks Brian! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is several years old, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve linked to it before on the blog.\u00a0 It is a 5+ minute long presentation, narrated by the astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson.\u00a0 It gives a very quick overview of carbon nanotubes and how they are grown in a furnace (and then pulled off to longer [&hellip;]<\/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-1467","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\/1467","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=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}