{"id":1570,"date":"2013-07-13T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2014-10-04T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T22:49:14","slug":"a-tedx-talk-about-the-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"A Tedx Talk about the Space Elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Markus Landgraf, a Mission Analyst at the European Space Agency, gave a TED<sup>x<\/sup> talk about the Space Elevator.\u00a0 It was well done and worth the 19+ minutes of your time it will take you to listen to it.<\/p>\n<p>He discusses the long CNT fibers made by a company in China and proposes using these to make an SE Cable.\u00a0 The problem is, is that they&#8217;re just not yet &#8220;pure&#8221; enough to do so.\u00a0 Nano-threads spun from CNTs are, so far, full of kinks and defects &#8211; the technology is just not yet there to make them like we need to have them be.\u00a0 But technology continues to attack the problem and I think it&#8217;s only a matter of time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An Elevator to Space: Markus Landgraf at TEDxRheinMain\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f8CpnKBnPC0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Markus Landgraf, a Mission Analyst at the European Space Agency, gave a TEDx talk about the Space Elevator.\u00a0 It was well done and worth the 19+ minutes of your time it will take you to listen to it. He discusses the long CNT fibers made by a company in China and proposes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-presentations","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","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=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}