{"id":2249,"date":"2015-03-08T00:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T06:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2015-03-09T00:54:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T06:54:55","slug":"weekend-walkabout-india-to-japan-to-fantasy-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Walkabout &#8211; Thailand to Japan to Fantasy Land&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/Walkabout_rev0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" \/>Welcome to this edition of Weekend Walkabout.\u00a0 In this post, we visit <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">India<\/span> Thailand to see a &#8216;possible competitor&#8217; to a space elevator, then journey to Japan to see the latest with our favorite anime series, Gundam, and then wind up in what can only be described as &#8220;Fantasy Land&#8221;.\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a programming note concerning this blog and Facebook.\u00a0 And without further ado&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A new &#8220;lift system&#8221; has been demonstrated in <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">India<\/span> Thailand and it is just awesome.\u00a0 Frankly, I don&#8217;t ever think it will be a competitor to the space elevator \ud83d\ude42 but it ranks pretty high on my cool-o-meter.\u00a0 Make sure you watch it to the end&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pD_yQZ4iNjY<\/p>\n<p>At the very end, when all of the pieces are falling, it reminded me of one of the qualifying runs by the Kansas City Space Pirates at the 2007 Space Elevator Games.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KC Space Pirates make a qualifying run at the 2007 Space Elevator Games\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/121634727?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Next up is a stop in Japan.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a fan of Anime, you almost certainly know about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gundam\" target=\"_blank\">Gundam<\/a>.\u00a0 This started as a TV series in Japan in 1979 and now has grown to be much more than that.\u00a0 According to Chris Beveridge, who knows much more about these things than I do, something very cool has happened:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While fans of Gundam Build Fighters Try have been treated to a proper simulcast for that series and its previous incarnation, fans of Gundam Reconguista in G haven\u2019t made out as good. But that\u2019s now managed to change some as the series has begun streaming on the official Gundam Info YouTube channel with English subtitles (as well as streams in other territories\/subtitles). The addition comes as about twenty-two episodes have been broadcast in Japan since it\u2019s debut last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chris tells us that the plot concept of Gundam Reconguista in G is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Universal Century, an era of historic migration into space and space wars has ended, and some time has passed. Now, mankind believes that their pursuits and prosperity will continue on peacefully into the new era, the Regild Century (R.C.)<\/p>\n<p>R.C. 1014. The Capital Tower is a space elevator which towers over the land connecting Earth to space. The tower\u2019s purpose is to bring down Photon Batteries from space that power the Earth, and as such is perceived as a holy place&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AJZXfjjNOGk#t=82<\/p>\n<p>Read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fandompost.com\/2015\/02\/27\/gundam-reconguista-in-g-anime-begins-subtitled-youtube-distribution\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Finally, we wind up in &#8220;Fantasy Land&#8221;.\u00a0 The baseline model for today&#8217;s concept of a Space Elevator was defined in the book by Dr. Brad Edwards and Eric Westling; <strong>The Space Elevator: A Revolutionary Earth-to-Space Transportation System<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you want to understand how a space elevator could work in the real-world, this book is a must-read.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve often referred to it on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>However, it appears that this book has become worth its weight in Gold.\u00a0 Longtime Space Elevator Blog reader Paul R. recently sent me this snapshot from Amazon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/SpaceElevatorBookFantasyLand.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/media\/SpaceElevatorBookFantasyLand.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"975\" height=\"752\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I checked this item yesterday, this price was still advertised.\u00a0 Just to let everyone know, I have a copy that I will sell for just $1,999.99!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Finally, some programming notes.\u00a0 I have killed, once and for all, with a wooden stake to the heart, the &#8220;Subscriber&#8221; function for this blog.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried it twice now, but all I get are registrations from spam-bots and it&#8217;s just a waste.\u00a0 So, if you want to subscribe to this blog, you&#8217;ll need to do it via RSS or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/media\/FacebookIcon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"74\" height=\"74\" \/>There is now a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheSpaceElevatorBlog\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> for this blog.\u00a0 Yes, I&#8217;ve gotten with it with technology that&#8217;s only several years old \ud83d\ude42 but still is relevant.\u00a0 &#8220;Like&#8221; The Space Elevator Blog on Facebook and you&#8217;ll get a notification every time a new post appears on this blog &#8211; Thank you!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/HatTip_rev2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/HatTip_rev2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a>Hat Tip to Dr. Peter Swan, president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isec.org\" target=\"_blank\">ISEC<\/a>, for the URL of the new <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Indian<\/span> Thai &#8220;Space Launch system&#8221; and to reader Paul R. for letting me know about the &#8220;greatly in-demand&#8221; Edwards-Westling book &#8211; thank you both!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>09Mar2015 Update &#8211; Thanks to reader Bob Munck for pointing out that the &#8220;space lift&#8221; is from Thailand, not India and also that they are called &#8220;Girandola&#8221; &#8211; you learn something new every day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this edition of Weekend Walkabout.\u00a0 In this post, we visit India Thailand to see a &#8216;possible competitor&#8217; to a space elevator, then journey to Japan to see the latest with our favorite anime series, Gundam, and then wind up in what can only be described as &#8220;Fantasy Land&#8221;.\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a programming note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekend-walkabout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","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=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}