{"id":1571,"date":"2013-07-26T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T19:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2013-07-26T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T19:59:16","slug":"weird-but-true-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1571","title":{"rendered":"Weird but True (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/WBT4SpaceElevator1.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_WBT4SpaceElevator1.png\" height=\"149\" class=\"alignright\"  width=\"200\" \/><\/a>In the National Geographic children&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/books\/dp\/142631020X\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Weird but True 4: 300 Outrageous Facts<\/em><\/a>, one of the items mentioned is the Space Elevator.\u00a0 It shows the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=433\" target=\"_blank\">Mondolithic<\/a> conceptual graphic of a Space Elevator and the fact mentioned is &#8220;<em>In the future, you may be able to take a Space Elevator thousands of miles above the earth.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure this is a direct result of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1487\" target=\"_blank\">NatGeo article on the Space Elevator<\/a> that ISEC was able to contribute to a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat Tip &#8211; &#8220;Fitzer&#8221; via Peter Swan)<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Click on the picture thumbnail to see a larger version<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the National Geographic children&#8217;s book Weird but True 4: 300 Outrageous Facts, one of the items mentioned is the Space Elevator.\u00a0 It shows the Mondolithic conceptual graphic of a Space Elevator and the fact mentioned is &#8220;In the future, you may be able to take a Space Elevator thousands of miles above the earth.&#8221; [&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-1571","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\/1571","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=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}