{"id":1622,"date":"2014-08-22T11:53:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2014-09-30T00:22:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T05:22:01","slug":"and-were-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1622","title":{"rendered":"And we’re off!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, August 22nd, 2014 and that means it’s the first day of the 2014 ISEC Space Elevator Conference<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I’m here attending again, as a Director of ISEC and as an enthusiast and supporter and will be documenting the conference as we go along.<\/p>\n

I’m from Chicagoland and the conference is in Seattle.\u00a0 Now, if you’re a professional football fan (and especially if you’re from Chicago or Seattle) you know that the Bears are playing the Seahawks in an exhibition football game this evening.\u00a0 Now yes, this is preseason, but it’s preseason game number 3 and, if you follow football, you know that this is close to what you’re going to see during the real season as is possible in preseason.\u00a0 The starters will play at least a half and maybe more.\u00a0 I’m a Bears fan and, like all Bears fan, we’re really looking forward to this game – it will be a good test to see how the team might do this year.<\/p>\n

I’m bringing all this up because when I left the hotel this morning, riding down in the elevator with me was a young couple and the lady was wearing a Chicago Blackhawks TShirt.\u00a0 I commented to them that “I like your TShirt”.\u00a0 They smiled and asked me if I was from Chicago.\u00a0 When I said I was, they said they were too.\u00a0 I asked them if they were going to watch the Bears-Seahawks game tonight and they said they were actually going – they had tickets!\u00a0 I’m jealous.<\/p>\n

So, a Chicago connection already and the conference hadn’t even started – a good omen indeed…<\/p>\n

And, back to the conference – we’ve had the introductory remarks from Conference David Horn and now Dr. Bryan Laubscher is giving his “Space Elevator 101” talk to get everyone on the same page…<\/p>\n

More soon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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