{"id":2123,"date":"2014-12-12T23:37:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T05:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2015-02-18T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T05:00:16","slug":"jerome-pearsons-keynote-speech-from-the-2013-isec-space-elevator-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"Jerome Pearson&#8217;s Keynote speech from the 2013 ISEC Space Elevator Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/JP2013SEC.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/media\/JP2013SEC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>After a very long delay, the keynote speech given by Mr. Jerome Pearson, the American engineer who is credited with co-inventing the modern day concept of a space elevator, at the 2013 ISEC Space Elevator Conference, is finally <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/114408967\" target=\"_blank\">available on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome&#8217;s presentation focused on Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the noted science-fiction author who wrote, among many other works, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fountains-Paradise-Arthur-C-Clarke\/dp\/B004THY25E\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418448687&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fountains of Paradise<\/strong><\/a>, the book that interested a lot of people (including yours truly) in the idea of a space elevator.\u00a0 Jerome provided technical assistance for this book and had a long friendship with Sir Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome talks about the works of Sir Arthur, his life and his interactions with him.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very interesting speech by one of the pioneers in the effort to design and build a space elevator and is well worth the 37+ minutes you would invest in watching it.<\/p>\n<p>Highly, highly recommended&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a very long delay, the keynote speech given by Mr. Jerome Pearson, the American engineer who is credited with co-inventing the modern day concept of a space elevator, at the 2013 ISEC Space Elevator Conference, is finally available on Vimeo. Jerome&#8217;s presentation focused on Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the noted science-fiction author who wrote, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isec","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","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=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}