{"id":408,"date":"2006-10-21T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T13:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2006-10-21T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T13:01:13","slug":"day-2-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 (Part 2) !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn is breaking here &#8211; dawn in the desert is truly beautiful.\u00a0 I spent 8 years living and working in Saudi Arabia and one of my favorite things there was to go camping in the desert and wake up to to the sunrises.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s still bloody cold.<\/p>\n<p>New development; As I wrote last night, Centaurus Aerospace showed up at the last minute and were hoping to compete.\u00a0 However, their microwave source is not working so they&#8217;ve teamed up with Punkworks, the other microwave team.\u00a0 Kevin Estrabillo from Punkworks tells me that the new combined team, known as &#8220;Punktaurus&#8221; will split the prize money 50-50 with Centaurus Aerospace if they win.<\/p>\n<p>Several teams are here already and there is some jockeying going on as to who will go first, how much time they&#8217;ll be allowed on the tether, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/BryanBenBradley.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_BryanBenBradley.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>Bryan Laubscher (back to the camera), Ben Shelef (in the truck) and Dr. Bradley Edwards getting things ready for this morning&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn is breaking here &#8211; dawn in the desert is truly beautiful.\u00a0 I spent 8 years living and working in Saudi Arabia and one of my favorite things there was to go camping in the desert and wake up to to the sunrises.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s still bloody cold. New development; As I wrote last night, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-pictures-drawings-animations-music-humor-games","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}