{"id":2200,"date":"2015-02-21T20:33:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T02:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2015-02-21T20:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T02:35:12","slug":"weekend-walkabout-seattle-to-india-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2200","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Walkabout – Seattle to India to Russia…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This edition of Weekend Walkabout starts in the USA (specifically Seattle), moves on the India and then finishes in Russia.\u00a0 There is also a ‘programming note’ I discuss at the end of this post.\u00a0 And without further ado…<\/p>\n

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Our first stop is in Seattle, Washington, USA.\u00a0 According to allevents.i\"\"n\/seattle<\/a>, our friends at Liftport<\/a> is hosting a talk about the space elevator (“Space Elevator – Past, Present, and Future”<\/strong>) on Wednesday, February 25th at 7:30pm.\u00a0 This event will be held at T.S. McHugh’s Irish Pub in Seattle, Washington.\u00a0 From the announcement:<\/p>\n

The Space Elevator is an idea that has been around for over 100 years. Building a ladder to space and climbing to the heavens by using a robot attached to a string, straight up. So what is the status of this project? Where do we stand? What do we need to make this vision a reality?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a Facebook page you can Like<\/a> to get more information to follow this and other STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math) events.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Next up is a stop in India. I had previously blogged about<\/a> the International Space Conference which was held at Amity University in India.\u00a0 The idea of a space elevator as well as the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) was well represented at this conference by Mr. Sourabh Kaushal, a long-time colleague in this effort.\u00a0 ISEC was a “Knowledge Partner” sponsor.<\/p>\n

From all reports, the conference was quite successful.\u00a0 The picture, below, shows ISEC literature being distributed at the conference.\u00a0 More pictures from the Conference have now been posted online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lastly, we make a stop in Russia.\u00a0 I found a website \/ forum<\/a> that appears to be all-things space elevator.\u00a0 There are only a few posts and all of them are dated May 5th, 2014.\u00a0 I don’t know if they really were posted on that date or if it’s some bug\/issue with the website.\u00a0 I’ll be checking it from time to time to see if there is anything new posted.<\/p>\n

Most of the items on there have already been covered in this blog, but there were links to a couple of videos that I hadn’t seen before.\u00a0 The first one shown was originally aired by the Russian state-sponsored TV station, RT.com<\/a>, and shows someone giving a brief explanation about the space elevator.\u00a0 It was very nice to see that Yuri Artsutanov was credited with the idea – that doesn’t happen as often as it should.<\/p>\n

If you’re not a native Russian speaker, you can translate the website using Chrome, but you’re on your own listening to the videos \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4zlXNvyThuk#t=28<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-u5lmfIW5gQ<\/p>\n

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Finally, a programming note.\u00a0 Some of you may recall that a few months ago, I had turned on the feature for this blog to have registered Users – i.e., people could subscribe to the blog and have it automatically send them current postings.\u00a0 After some complaints and problems, I turned it off.\u00a0 With the new version (4.1) of WordPress which I’m now running on, I’m hopeful that these issues have been taken care so I’ve turned the feature back on.\u00a0 Please let me know if you are experiencing any problems with this feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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