{"id":1577,"date":"2013-08-20T22:28:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T03:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2013-08-20T22:36:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T03:36:09","slug":"prophets-of-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"Prophets of Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_ACC.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"200\"  width=\"200\" \/>An oldie, but still goodie, and, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorconference.org\" target=\"_blank\">Space Elevator Conference<\/a> coming up in just a few days, this seems apropos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In 2011 and 2012, the Science Channel aired 8 shows in the <a href=\"http:\/\/science.discovery.com\/tv-shows\/prophets-of-science-fiction\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Prophets of Science Fiction<\/em><\/a> series.\u00a0 Episode 4, originally aired on November 30, 2011, featured Sir Arthur C Clarke (my all-time favorite sci-fi author).<\/p>\n<p>One of his best books was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fountains-Paradise-Arthur-C-Clarke\/dp\/0345253566\/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1377055557&amp;sr=1-1-catcorr&amp;keywords=fountains+of+paradise\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fountains of Paradise<\/em><\/a>, Sir Arthur&#8217;s concept of a Space Elevator.\u00a0 The show devotes a good portion of time to the concept and also to Michael Laine, head of <a href=\"http:\/\/liftport.com\/IPS\/page\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">LiftPort<\/a>, and someone very active in the Space Elevator community.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the movie as it is occasionally re-aired on the Science Channel and also, online, thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=bIz7L_lMFFU\" target=\"_blank\">awesomeness that is YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Elevator segment starts at about 26:20 and the bit with Michael Laine starts at about 30:28.\u00a0 Michael, incidentally, will be attending this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Conference as he usually does and I will look forward to seeing him again there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oldie, but still goodie, and, with the Space Elevator Conference coming up in just a few days, this seems apropos&#8230; In 2011 and 2012, the Science Channel aired 8 shows in the Prophets of Science Fiction series.\u00a0 Episode 4, originally aired on November 30, 2011, featured Sir Arthur C Clarke (my all-time favorite sci-fi [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","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=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}