{"id":1518,"date":"2012-03-23T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2012-03-23T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T04:00:14","slug":"mechanic-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"Mechanic Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_MechanicPanicLogo.gif\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"181\"  width=\"181\" \/>A new game, <strong>Mechanic Panic<\/strong>, has been issued for Apple platforms (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone) with the Space Elevator as a backdrop and, guess, what, the Space Elevator gets destroyed &#8211; how original!\u00a0 From the game description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cA catastrophic explosion has rocked the world\u2019s first Space Elevator. Thankfully you\u2019re on the job! As the fearless mechanic, jump as high as you can to save all the people in peril. The environment around you is crumbling. Beware of the many hazards that will come crashing down.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For a limited time, the game is free, so if you&#8217;re a fan of the Space Elevator and an Apple aficionado, head on over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/theappera.com\/2012\/03\/22\/squids-mechanic-panic-free-iphone-games-for-a-limited-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes link<\/a> to download it.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Arthur C. Clarke once famously said that the Space Elevator would be built &#8220;50 years after people stopped laughing about it.&#8221;\u00a0 Perhaps a more modern take on this is that a Space Elevator will be built &#8220;20 years after people stop joking about it crashing&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new game, Mechanic Panic, has been issued for Apple platforms (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone) with the Space Elevator as a backdrop and, guess, what, the Space Elevator gets destroyed &#8211; how original!\u00a0 From the game description: \u201cA catastrophic explosion has rocked the world\u2019s first Space Elevator. Thankfully you\u2019re on the job! As the fearless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-pictures-drawings-animations-music-humor-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","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=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}