{"id":425,"date":"2006-10-29T15:12:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T20:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2006-10-29T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T20:21:04","slug":"the-climber-we-never-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Recens – The Climber we never saw…"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an old joke that goes something like this; “What do you call someone who speaks three languages?\u00a0 Answer – Trilingual.\u00a0 What do you call someone who speaks two languages?\u00a0 Answer – Bilingual.\u00a0 What do you call someone who speaks one language?\u00a0 Answer – American.”<\/p>\n

I was reminded of this joke by a recent email conversation I had with Elisenda Bou from the Spanish Recens team.\u00a0 In her emails to me, she apologized for her “English”.\u00a0 I pointed out to her that “her English” was good enough to allow us to converse and was, in any event, much better than “my Spanish.”<\/p>\n

As followers of this year’s Space Elevator games know, Recens supposedly had their Climber “lost” by UPS somewhere between the shipping point in Spain and the receiving point in Las Cruces, New Mexico (the particular story I heard was that it was “lost in Kentucky”).\u00a0 I had written earlier that I was very upset with UPS for losing this Climber – how badly does this reflect on American competence when one of our corporations does something like this?\u00a0 As with many stories\u00a0like this, however,\u00a0it is not always as it first appears.\u00a0 It seems\u00a0the problems started in Europe when, upon the advice of their\u00a0Cargo Agent,\u00a0Recens declared the value of their shipment to be no more than $100.00 (to try and bypass any customs issues).\u00a0 The package was opened in Germany and was worth obviously more than that and this is where the trouble began.\u00a0 According to Elisenda, this is where their Climber is now.\u00a0\u00a0I wonder how the story of “lost in Kentucky” got started?\u00a0\u00a0Or, maybe it made it that far and then got shipped back to Germany?\u00a0\u00a0Anyway, as I have unwittingly passed along something (UPS lost the Climber in Kentucky) that now appears to be untrue, I wanted to post the facts as I now understand them.<\/p>\n

In any event, Recens seems to have taken their setback\u00a0very graciously and worked with USST and other teams (see Matt Abrams posting<\/a> over at the Starclimber blog) in order to be a positive force at the just-concluded Space Elevator games.\u00a0 Elisenda did confirm that they temporarily purchased the USST climber so that they could share the resource they did have at the Games, their spotlights.<\/p>\n

Elisenda also emailed me some pictures of their Climber, shown below.\u00a0 Recens\u00a0prime sponsor was a museum in Spain and so their Climber, when it’s returned to them (not the USST Climber) is going to be shown at this museum, first at their Madrid location<\/a> and then at their Barcelona location<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There’s an old joke that goes something like this; “What do you call someone who speaks three languages?\u00a0 Answer – Trilingual.\u00a0 What do you call someone who speaks two languages?\u00a0 Answer – Bilingual.\u00a0 What do you call someone who speaks one language?\u00a0 Answer – American.” I was reminded of this joke by a recent email […]<\/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-425","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\/425","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=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}