{"id":1474,"date":"2011-04-01T00:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T06:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2011-04-01T13:33:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T19:33:30","slug":"i-cant-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"I can’t wait…"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the activities we have going on right now at the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC)<\/a> is defining how the thing is actually going to work – with the most detail we can get.\u00a0 This “Concept of Operations” will then be used to drive Business Plans, plans that can show if\/how a Space Elevator can be profitable.<\/p>\n

We are now debating several different issues, one of them being will we or will we not have a Space Station attached to the Space Elevator somewhere in LEO?\u00a0 Of course we would like one, but there is a weight penalty that must be paid if we have it.\u00a0 It’s yet to be determined whether this is feasible or not.<\/p>\n

What would we do with a Space Station?\u00a0 Well, Space Tourism is the obvious example, but another opportunity has just been brought to my attention.<\/p>\n

If you’re Poker fans (like me), you are aware of the many tournaments held each year world-wide.\u00a0 I think a LEO Space Station would be an ideal location for yet another tournament – we could come with all sorts of interesting names for it (which I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader).\u00a0 And, it seems, that we won’t be the first location off-earth that will host a Poker event.\u00a0 CardsChat.com (along with Virgin Galactic) has come up with the outstanding idea of a Poker match between Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu – two of the top (if not the top) Holdem Poker players in the world (and now out of the world) today.<\/p>\n

Read more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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