{"id":550,"date":"2007-02-28T23:15:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T05:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2007-02-28T23:15:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T05:15:54","slug":"liftport-lift-tickets-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"LiftPort Lift Tickets now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/LiftPortNewLogo.jpg\"  \/>Over at the LiftPort website, they are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/content\/view\/22\/43\/\">selling Lift Tickets<\/a>, priced at $25.00 \/ one ounce.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what one ounce item I would send up to orbit, but I&#8217;d think of something.\u00a0 I guess it would depend if I get it back or not (I&#8217;m assuming I would).\u00a0 Perhaps one ounce of plant seeds to see what radiation would do to them.\u00a0 Any other creative ideas out there?<\/p>\n<p>What one ounce (or less) item would YOU send up to orbit if you could?<\/p>\n<p>$25\/ounce works out to $400\/pound.\u00a0\u00a0If you&#8217;re going to send yourself up there, that means a diet now REALLY makes sense &#8211; every ounce you lose saves you 25 bucks&#8230;\u00a0 Kind of drives it home, doesn&#8217;t it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can also bid on ticket number one over at <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=160089242945\">eBay<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the LiftPort website, they are now selling Lift Tickets, priced at $25.00 \/ one ounce.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what one ounce item I would send up to orbit, but I&#8217;d think of something.\u00a0 I guess it would depend if I get it back or not (I&#8217;m assuming I would).\u00a0 Perhaps one ounce of [&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-550","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\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}