{"id":375,"date":"2006-10-15T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T04:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2006-10-16T13:08:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T18:08:32","slug":"5-days-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"5 Days and Counting !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/StarclimberLogo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/USSTLogo.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Ben Shelef reports that &#8220;things are good&#8221; &#8211; the rain has stopped.\u00a0 Two other teams have now arrived onsite; Starclimber and the University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team (USST).<\/p>\n<p>Below are some pictures from today&#8217;s activities. Click on the picture thumbnail to see a larger version.\u00a0 Double-click the arrow next to the Speaker icon to hear a short audio clip describing what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/PreppingRibbonAnchor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_PreppingRibbonAnchor.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>Ben Shelef and Dave Carty working on the Ribbon Anchor (audio clip narrated by Ken Davidian).<\/p>\n[audio:PreppingRibbonAnchor.mp3]\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/BrianTurnerWorking.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_BrianTurnerWorking.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>Brian Turner from the Kansas City Space Pirates working on his climber (audio narrated by his Dad, Dave Turner).<\/p>\n[audio:BrianTurnerWorking.mp3]\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/RibbonCounterweightWork.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_RibbonCounterweightWork.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>Ben and Dave working on the Ribbon Counterweight (audio clip narrated by Ken Davidian).<\/p>\n[audio:RibbonCounterweightWork.mp3]\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/StarclimberWork.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_StarclimberWork.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>Matt Abrams of Team Starclimber (audio clip narrated by Matt Abrams).<\/p>\n[audio:StarclimberWork.mp3]\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Shelef reports that &#8220;things are good&#8221; &#8211; the rain has stopped.\u00a0 Two other teams have now arrived onsite; Starclimber and the University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team (USST). Below are some pictures from today&#8217;s activities. Click on the picture thumbnail to see a larger version.\u00a0 Double-click the arrow next to the Speaker icon to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}