{"id":1623,"date":"2014-08-22T12:33:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2014-09-30T00:21:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T05:21:11","slug":"leonard-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"Leonard David"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2014SEC\/Friday\/IMG_5023F\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/2014SEC\/Friday\/tn_IMG_5023F\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"150\"  width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Noted Science author Leonard David is now giving the Keynote speech at the ISEC 2014 Space Elevator Conference, talking about how the Space Elevator fits into the &#8220;current space environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He had an interesting, and almost certainly true statement, early on in his talk.\u00a0 He said the space elevator, whenever it is built, will be &#8220;very different&#8221; from what we think it might be now.\u00a0 We need to keep an open mind.\u00a0 One of his final remarks struck me; &#8220;<em>Be prepared to be stunned by the future<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Clicking on the thumbnail will display a full-size picture.<\/p>\n<p>All of these presentations are being recorded so, &#8220;God willing and the creek don&#8217;t rise&#8221;, they&#8217;ll be posted on the ISEC Vimeo account in the near future.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll notify you here when that happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted Science author Leonard David is now giving the Keynote speech at the ISEC 2014 Space Elevator Conference, talking about how the Space Elevator fits into the &#8220;current space environment&#8221;. He had an interesting, and almost certainly true statement, early on in his talk.\u00a0 He said the space elevator, whenever it is built, will be [&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-1623","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\/1623","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=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}