{"id":507,"date":"2007-01-22T21:52:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T02:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2007-01-22T21:53:51","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T02:53:51","slug":"teams-from-iran-ukraine-japan-germany-canada-and-the-usa-file-to-participate-in-the-2007-space-elevator-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Teams from Iran, Ukraine, Japan, Germany, Canada and the USA file to participate in the 2007 Space Elevator Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/Elevator2010Logo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elevator2010.org\/teams.html\">Elevator2010 team page<\/a>, one can see that\u00a0nineteen teams have filed to\u00a0compete in\u00a0this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games.\u00a0\u00a0 Most fascinating, to me anyway, are the entries from Iran, the Ukraine and Japan as this is the first year teams from these countries intend to compete.\u00a0 There are also three teams from Germany who have filed; the rest are from Canada and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen of the teams have filed for the Climber competition with the other two filing intent to participate in the Tether competition.<\/p>\n<p>All of this filing is, of course, before the February 1st deadline &#8211; the date when money is due.\u00a0 When that date arrives,\u00a0we&#8217;ll probably start losing some of these teams;\u00a0separating the &#8220;ascenders from the pretenders&#8221; as it were&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, even if some of these teams drop out, I think it is encouraging to see how widely the idea of a Space Elevator and the interest in the Space Elevator Games has spread &#8211; it is truly becoming international.\u00a0 My only disappointment is that we&#8217;ve seen nothing yet\u00a0from &#8220;down under&#8221; &#8211; where are the teams from Perth who want to eventually build one of these in their ocean front property?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Elevator2010 team page, one can see that\u00a0nineteen teams have filed to\u00a0compete in\u00a0this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games.\u00a0\u00a0 Most fascinating, to me anyway, are the entries from Iran, the Ukraine and Japan as this is the first year teams from these countries intend to compete.\u00a0 There are also three teams from Germany who have filed; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}