{"id":240,"date":"2006-05-24T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2006-05-25T00:28:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T05:28:01","slug":"the-space-elevator-going-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"The space elevator: going down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Nature.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2006\/060522\/full\/060522-1.html\">article<\/a>, the author cites a study by Nicola Pugno of the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, which indicates that carbon nanotubes are not strong enough to make a Space Elevator because of their &#8220;inevitable defects&#8221;.\u00a0 And, he says, even if the defect problem could be overcome, &#8220;damage from micrometeorites and even erosion by oxygen atoms would render them weak. So can a space elevator be made? &#8220;With the technology available today? Never,&#8221; he says.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This article has, obviously, generated quite a stir.\u00a0 Some of the debate can be seen over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/space-elevator\/\">Yahoo Space Elevator forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Nature.com article, the author cites a study by Nicola Pugno of the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, which indicates that carbon nanotubes are not strong enough to make a Space Elevator because of their &#8220;inevitable defects&#8221;.\u00a0 And, he says, even if the defect problem could be overcome, &#8220;damage from micrometeorites and even erosion by [&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-240","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\/240","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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}