{"id":459,"date":"2006-11-30T02:29:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T07:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2006-11-30T02:32:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T07:32:16","slug":"robots-rule-at-first-lego-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Robots rule at FIRST LEGO League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve blogged about these LEGO competitions before (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=448\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=334\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=241\">here<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescommunity.com\/site\/tab1.cfm?newsid=17498012&#038;BRD=2553&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=506042&#038;rfi=6\">here<\/a> is yet another story, this one from the London Times-Mirror,\u00a0about these ongoing games and how they include the concept of a Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p>This is so cool, introducing young children to such concepts.\u00a0 You see things such as this, and also how Space Elevators are becoming more and more a part of computer Games,\u00a0as well as the creation of LiftPort and the Space Elevator Games (and the publicity that surrounds them), and it&#8217;s apparent that the\u00a0idea of a Space Elevator\u00a0continues to percolate through various layers of society.\u00a0 This will pay off, I think,\u00a0in public support for building a Space Elevator when the day comes\u00a0that carbon nanotubes of sufficient length and strength are finally created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve blogged about these LEGO competitions before (here, here and here) and here is yet another story, this one from the London Times-Mirror,\u00a0about these ongoing games and how they include the concept of a Space Elevator. This is so cool, introducing young children to such concepts.\u00a0 You see things such as this, and also how [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","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=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}