{"id":510,"date":"2007-01-24T01:55:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T06:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2007-01-24T02:09:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T07:09:29","slug":"discovery-channel-space-elevator-show-trailer-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Channel Space Elevator show trailer now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/DiscoveryChannelLogo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Customer Service at the Discovery Channel seems to be akin to that of Yahoo and some other large organizations &#8211; non-existent.\u00a0 They have not replied to repeated emails from me requesting information on their upcoming Space Elevator show.\u00a0 However, browsing their website this evening, I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/beyond\/player.html?playerId=203711706&#038;categoryId=210014191\">trailer<\/a> (which is quite cool) and a notice that the show will air as part of their 2057 series (as Dr. Edwards informed me) at 10:00pm.\u00a0 I have no idea if that is Eastern time or whatever, but check your local listings for Sunday evening and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll find it.\u00a0 If\/when I find more information on this show, I will post it.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most interesting things on the video, IMHO, is in the very beginning when they show the earth-base.\u00a0 There are 3 national flags shown on the launching platform, the flags of the USA, the European Union and China, with the Chinese flag taking center stage.\u00a0 I doubt if this was a political statement by the creators, but is interesting nonetheless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Update &#8211; the link I gave seems to work only sporadically.\u00a0 If you go <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/beyond\/\">here<\/a>, you will get to the Discovery Channel Beyond Home Page.\u00a0 From there, click on the tab on the right &#8211; Video Search.\u00a0 Enter &#8220;Space Elevator&#8221; (no quotes).\u00a0 The trailer will be the first item shown.\u00a0 You can click on the &#8220;Play clip&#8221; option and it should work for you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customer Service at the Discovery Channel seems to be akin to that of Yahoo and some other large organizations &#8211; non-existent.\u00a0 They have not replied to repeated emails from me requesting information on their upcoming Space Elevator show.\u00a0 However, browsing their website this evening, I found this trailer (which is quite cool) and a notice [&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-510","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\/510","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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}