{"id":1630,"date":"2014-08-22T23:55:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T04:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2014-09-30T00:11:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T05:11:43","slug":"2014-isec-space-elevator-conference-day-1-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"2014 ISEC Space Elevator Conference &#8211; Day 1 Wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And, to get this out of the way right away, it&#8217;s a good thing that the Bears-Seahawks games was a preseason one &#8211; &#8217;nuff said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The first day of the 2014 ISEC Space Elevator Conference was outstanding.\u00a0 The morning was &#8220;setting the stage&#8221;, introductory information and a fine Keynote speech from Science writer Leonard David of how the Space Elevator fits into the current space paradigm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/2014SEC\/Meteorologist.gif\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"150\" \/>The afternoon sessions were all technical ones and I think it&#8217;s safe to say all attendees learned a lot.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard for me to pick a favorite, but I must comment on the final session of the day, on Weather; how it can be measured, how it can be forecast and what it means for a space elevator.\u00a0 The presenter, Winifred Crawford ended her presentation with the suggestion that we start recruiting a meteorologist (or two) and freely admitted that she was hooked on the concept of the Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p>All of these sessions are being recorded and will be on our video website in the near future &#8211; watch this space for an announcement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On to Day 2!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, to get this out of the way right away, it&#8217;s a good thing that the Bears-Seahawks games was a preseason one &#8211; &#8217;nuff said&#8230; The first day of the 2014 ISEC Space Elevator Conference was outstanding.\u00a0 The morning was &#8220;setting the stage&#8221;, introductory information and a fine Keynote speech from Science writer Leonard David [&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-1630","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\/1630","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=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}