{"id":287,"date":"2006-07-02T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T18:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2006-07-02T13:35:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T18:35:31","slug":"scorpions-for-cancer-therapy-and-space-elevator-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Scorpions for Cancer Therapy and Space Elevator Contests"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Museum of Science\u00a0produces a series of\u00a0podcasts on various technical topics.\u00a0 In the current week’s offering, the Space Elevator games coming up in October are described, along with a “Space Elevator 101” primer for the uninitiated.\u00a0 Despite the technical errors in the presentation (geosynchronous orbit is defined as 27,000 Kilometers above the earth and all of the rest of their measurements are proportionally incorrect), it’s good to see yet another outlet talking about Space Elevators.<\/p>\n

The presentation is linked to here<\/a> and\u00a0covers two topics.\u00a0 You can skip the first topic if you like\u00a0(Scorpions for Cancer Therapy – as a cancer survivor, I found it quite interesting); the Space Elevator Games\u00a0section begins at 7 minutes, 42 seconds in and lasts for a little over 11 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Boston Museum of Science\u00a0produces a series of\u00a0podcasts on various technical topics.\u00a0 In the current week’s offering, the Space Elevator games coming up in October are described, along with a “Space Elevator 101” primer for the uninitiated.\u00a0 Despite the technical errors in the presentation (geosynchronous orbit is defined as 27,000 Kilometers above the earth and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-presentations","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}