{"id":1548,"date":"2012-10-17T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T05:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2012-10-17T00:05:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T05:05:48","slug":"payload-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Payload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_Payload.jpg\" onmouseout=\"undefined\" onmouseover=\"undefined\" title=\"undefined\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"200\"  width=\"146\" \/>There is a new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/50509389\" target=\"_blank\">space elevator-themed short<\/a>\u00a0out now called Payload. \u00a0It&#8217;s nice to see the Space Elevator getting more publicity this way, but this short film is a real downer &#8211; it makes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1392170\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hunger Games<\/a>\u00a0look like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0038650\/\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/a>\u00a0in comparison&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/LMEntry.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tm_LMEntry.png\" onmouseout=\"undefined\" onmouseover=\"undefined\" title=\"undefined\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"200\"  width=\"123\" \/><\/a>And, maybe it&#8217;s just me, but the opening shot of an ascending Space Elevator reminded me a little bit of the Kansas City Space Pirates and LaserMotive&#8217;s entries in the 2009 Space Elevator Games&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also reminded of Brian Turner (the captain of the Kansas City Space Pirates)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=995\" target=\"_blank\">appearance<\/a>\u00a0on the Conan O&#8217;Brien show. \u00a0After Brian had described his vision of the highway system to outer space, \u00a0Conan remarked that &#8220;<em>It will be filled with drifters, loners and prostitutes.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gee, such optimism about the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>(The picture thumbnail is of the LaserMotive climber during it&#8217;s prize-winning ascent in the 2009 SE Games, courtesy of NASA. \u00a0Click on it to see a full-size version of the picture).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new\u00a0space elevator-themed short\u00a0out now called Payload. \u00a0It&#8217;s nice to see the Space Elevator getting more publicity this way, but this short film is a real downer &#8211; it makes\u00a0The Hunger Games\u00a0look like\u00a0It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life\u00a0in comparison&#8230; And, maybe it&#8217;s just me, but the opening shot of an ascending Space Elevator reminded me [&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-1548","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\/1548","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=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}