{"id":493,"date":"2007-01-17T01:46:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T06:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2007-01-17T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T06:50:11","slug":"robotic-cable-inspector-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Robotic Cable Inspector Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/businesstechnology\/070116_technovel_spaceelev.html\">This<\/a> is an interesting article from Space.com about\u00a0a cable inspection robot.\u00a0 It discusses, specifically, a robot for &#8220;terrestrial underground power cable systems&#8221;, but draws the obvious parallel for the need for automated inspections of a future Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p>As a serendipitous side note, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donparrish.com\/\">friend<\/a> of mine recently suggested that perhaps a good way to test a carbon nanotube cable, or to demonstrate it&#8217;s strength, would be to use one for the San Francisco Cable Car system.\u00a0 Ben Shelef pointed out that the requirements and environmental conditions wouldn&#8217;t be the same, but that it still might be a useful idea.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, these types of climbers \/ robots are going to be crucial in maintaining a Space Elevator.\u00a0 As a retired Computer Programmer, I&#8217;d love the challenge of programming one of these to handle any and all conditions they might encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Update: For some reason, this article from Space.com takes forever and a day to load &#8211; be patient &#8211; it will happen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article from Space.com about\u00a0a cable inspection robot.\u00a0 It discusses, specifically, a robot for &#8220;terrestrial underground power cable systems&#8221;, but draws the obvious parallel for the need for automated inspections of a future Space Elevator. As a serendipitous side note, a friend of mine recently suggested that perhaps a good way to [&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-493","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\/493","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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}