{"id":535,"date":"2007-02-16T23:52:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T05:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2007-02-17T01:09:51","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T07:09:51","slug":"twenty-one-teams-now-registered-for-the-2007-space-elevator-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-one teams now registered for the 2007 Space Elevator Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 1st, I posted<\/a> that seventeen teams were now fully registered (i.e., they’ve done the paperwork and have paid the entrance fee) for the 2007 Space Elevator Games.<\/a>\u00a0 That number has now increased to twenty-one.\u00a0 At this rate, we’ll have\u00a0seventy-seven and a half teams registered\u00a0by the times the Games start… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Two of these teams are registered in the Tether competition (Astroaraneae<\/a>, last year’s winner, and a team from MIT<\/a>) while the other nineteen are in the Climber\/Power Beaming event.<\/p>\n

Of these nineteen, three are in this year’s new event, the “Limited Competition”.\u00a0 Entrants in this competition are essentially playing by the rules of the 2006 Space Elevator Games; 50 meters of travel at an average speed of at least 1m\/s.\u00a0 There is no money to be awarded for the Limited competition, but it’s a great way to get some experience in this event while working towards the 2008 Space Elevator games.\u00a0 The three teams in the Limited event are from Japan<\/a>, Iran and Spain<\/a>.\u00a0 The Spanish team, Recens, was the victim of a shipping\u00a0snafu with UPS\u00a0and their climber never made it to the 2006 Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 I’m glad to see that they haven’t been so put off by this that they gave up.\u00a0 One has to like their chances this year as they had a climber ready and working for last year (they’ll probably charter an Iberia Air plane direct to wherever the competition is going to be held this year).\u00a0 You can see pictures of it by clicking on the “Photos” link at the top\u00a0of the blog.<\/p>\n

One also has to have respect for whatever the Japanese are going to attempt to do – they are not exactly technological neophytes.<\/p>\n

The mystery team, for me, is the one from Iran.\u00a0 I await their arrival and entry with great anticipation.\u00a0 The Islamic world has been a technological backwater for centuries.\u00a0 I\u00a0lived and worked\u00a0in Saudi Arabia for eight years in the 1980’s\u00a0and saw little native technological advancement in my time there.\u00a0 There’s nothing inherent about it, it’s just the way it’s been.\u00a0\u00a0But it’s only a matter of time before this changes and perhaps the Iranian entry\u00a0is a manifestation of that.<\/p>\n

I’m disappointed that we’ve seen nothing from India, China or Australia – maybe I’ll write their Presidents and ask them why they’re chicken \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 1st, I posted that seventeen teams were now fully registered (i.e., they’ve done the paperwork and have paid the entrance fee) for the 2007 Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 That number has now increased to twenty-one.\u00a0 At this rate, we’ll have\u00a0seventy-seven and a half teams registered\u00a0by the times the Games start… \ud83d\ude42 Two of these […]<\/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-535","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\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}