{"id":486,"date":"2007-01-09T21:52:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T02:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2007-01-09T21:52:51","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T02:52:51","slug":"nova-science-now-show-airs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"NOVA Science Now show airs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just finished watching the NOVA Science Now show featuring, among other topics, the Space Elevator.\u00a0 It was nice to see a science show that had the technical facts straight (I didn’t catch any errors – if anyone did, please correct me).\u00a0 They also did a good job, in the few minutes they alloted to it,\u00a0of covering the Climber competition at this year’s Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 Again, they had their facts right; the University of Michigan’s\u00a0Climber\u00a0was first to the top, Lite-Won and TurboCrawler also made it to the top, and the USST team made it to the top in nearly prize-awarding time.<\/p>\n

It would have been nice, however, if they had mentioned how much prize money was at stake, especially now since NASA has increased the prize money significantly –\u00a0I think that would have been quite newsworthy.\u00a0 Also worth mentioning, I think, would have been the Tether competition and the fact that the Space Elevator Games are an annual competition – with the third one coming up this year.<\/p>\n

Brian Turner and the Kansas City Space Pirates must be happy with the show as they were prominently mentioned in it – there is no doubt that the “Death Ray” they attempted to ride to the top was quite unique.<\/p>\n

As soon as the show is available online, I’ll post a link to it.\u00a0 Also, on January 16th, we’re supposed to be able to see answers from Dr. Brad Edwards to questions posted to him\/NOVA.\u00a0 I’ll link to that when available, too.<\/p>\n

All in all, good, free, publicity from a recognized source\u00a0– and one can’t complain about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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