{"id":549,"date":"2007-02-27T22:22:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T04:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2007-02-28T00:24:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T06:24:31","slug":"planetary-society-interview-with-ben-shelef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Society interview with Ben Shelef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/sail_and_earth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"128\" src=\"\/media\/tn_sail_and_earth.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 128px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"108\" src=\"\/media\/Elevator2010Logo.jpg\"  height=\"53\" style=\"width: 108px; height: 53px\" \/>One of the organizations I belong to is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/home\/\">The Planetary Society<\/a>.\u00a0 I support them because they actually DO stuff, not just sit there and talk about it.\u00a0 They also have\u00a0great podcasts.\u00a0 Each week their host,\u00a0Mat Kaplan, does a\u00a0truly fine\u00a0job in\u00a0interviewing his guests.<\/p>\n<p>I recently became a first-time entrant to their weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/explore\/topics\/planetary_radio_trivia\/\">Trivia contests<\/a>.\u00a0 Mat took the time to personally reply to me and I found\u00a0out that he was well aware of the concept of the Space Elevator.\u00a0 He had interviewed Ben Shelef in 2005, before the first Annual Space Elevator games occurred.\u00a0 That interview can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/radio\/show\/00000008\/\">here<\/a> and is well worth your time to listen to.\u00a0\u00a0It really is well done and it gives you a window into the\u00a0how and\u00a0why that\u00a0the Space Elevator Games exist.<\/p>\n<p>This is also notice to my readers that if future Trivia contests have a subject that can, at all, be related to a Space Elevator, I&#8217;m going to post it on this blog and will urge my readers to respond to it.\u00a0 Several weeks ago, their Trivia Question was &#8220;What is the altitude of Geosynchronous orbit?&#8221; &#8211; something that all Space Elevator afficianados should know by heart.\u00a0 I somehow missed this show and by the time I heard it, it was too late.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t happen again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Note: You can click on the Planetary Society picture of a Solar Sail and see a larger version &#8211; be warned &#8211; it&#8217;s a 5MB file)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the organizations I belong to is The Planetary Society.\u00a0 I support them because they actually DO stuff, not just sit there and talk about it.\u00a0 They also have\u00a0great podcasts.\u00a0 Each week their host,\u00a0Mat Kaplan, does a\u00a0truly fine\u00a0job in\u00a0interviewing his guests. I recently became a first-time entrant to their weekly Trivia contests.\u00a0 Mat took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-presentations","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","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=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}