{"id":404,"date":"2006-10-20T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2006-10-20T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T23:37:30","slug":"day-1-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 &#8211; (Part 6) !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next team to make an attempt was the German Turbo Crawler.\u00a0 This is the biggest climber in the competition, a full 26 kilos (1 kilo over the allowance &#8211; some negotiation and winning formula recalculation was necessary to allow them qualify).\u00a0 But they, too, fell victim to the winds here.\u00a0 Below are some photos showing what happened &#8211; as always, click on the thumbnails to view a larger version of the picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/TwistingTether.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_TwistingTether.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>The tether twisting, twisting, twisting.\u00a0 It got so bad at times that the tether actually wrapped around the line next to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/GermansStruggling1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_GermansStruggling1.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>German team struggling to get their Climber in a position to launch.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/GermansStuggling2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_GermansStruggling2.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>Another view&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/ProfMeche.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_ProfMeche.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>Professor Dr. Detlef H. Meche explaining to one of the news crew that today&#8217;s test had to be cancelled due to high winds.\u00a0 He made the point that their particular climber needs to have a stable tether for the first 5 meters &#8211; after that they can deal with the wind.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One other point of note; TurboCrawler uses 30,000 watts of light to drive their Climber.\u00a0 They brought an 18,000 watt spotlight from Germany with them and rented a 12,000 watt spotlight here (from Hollywood, no less).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next team to make an attempt was the German Turbo Crawler.\u00a0 This is the biggest climber in the competition, a full 26 kilos (1 kilo over the allowance &#8211; some negotiation and winning formula recalculation was necessary to allow them qualify).\u00a0 But they, too, fell victim to the winds here.\u00a0 Below are some photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures-drawings-animations-music-humor-games","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}