{"id":578,"date":"2007-03-29T21:50:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T02:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2007-03-29T23:42:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T04:42:54","slug":"sesi2007-conference-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"SESI2007 – Conference Wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Second International Conference and Exposition on Science, Engineering, and Habitation in Space, and the Second Biennial Space Elevator Workshop<\/em> (heck of a title, yes?) wrapped up yesterday afternoon.\u00a0 The afternoon session was dedicated to putting together a roadmap \/ plan \/ whatever you want to call it whereby about 20 or so of the conference participants vowed to work together to further the effort to build a space elevator.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Four teams were formed, each having a responsibility to explore one of four categories; Science & Technology Development, Political and Public Support, US and World Legal Considerations and Financial Funding and Market Drivers.\u00a0 Four leaders were selected to lead the teams; from left to right, Brad Edwards, Peter Swan, Tom Nugent and Brad Neumann.\u00a0 Some preliminary brainstorming was done and we’ll be hearing more from these teams in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n

The final topic discussed was a conference analysis.\u00a0 Many of the participants filled out a questionnaire that conference chair Phil Richter had distributed.\u00a0 At this conference analysis, Phil led a discussion as to what could be done better in future conferences.\u00a0 Many suggestions were given, but it came down to the fact that more volunteer help was needed, and will be needed at future conferences.\u00a0 If you want to help get a Space Elevator built, but don’t have a PhD in Physics or deep pockets to sponsor someone, something you can do is to help out at a future conference.\u00a0 All of these conferences have specific needs and tasks to be met and, when something isn’t picked up by a volunteer, a conference leader or chair inevitably has to pick it up.\u00a0 This prevents them from concentrating on the major issues and will, sooner or later, cause things to get dropped.\u00a0 You don’t have to be in close proximity to help.\u00a0 When Ben Shelef was organizing the Space Elevator Games<\/a> last year, many of the volunteers (yours truly included) would get together on a weekly phone call.\u00a0 Tasks were assigned, discussed, analyzed and moved along by people who didn’t live anywhere near where the games were being held.<\/p>\n

I’ll say it again; if you want to contribute to the effort to build a Space Elevator, volunteer to help out at one of the conferences – it will help us all.<\/p>\n

The conference also hosted a Student Robotics competition.\u00a0 Entrants\u00a0constructed Climbers that were to climb a 20 foot tether.\u00a0 The winner was declared based on calculations that included distance traveled, speed and payload as\u00a0factors.\u00a0 Three teams entered, two from Middle Tennessee State University and one from a (local, I think) High school.\u00a0 The two teams from MTSU took first and second while the\u00a0High school\u00a0team finished third.\u00a0 I would have posted more about this competition and posted it during the conference, but Patrick Boake’s Space Elevator Journal<\/a> is supposed to keep the “official chronicle” of this event – he should be posting on this sometime soon (hint, hint).<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here are 3 pictures from the Student Robotics Competition;<\/p>\n

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The tether, mounted from a\u00a0scissors-lift.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>The anchor<\/p>\n

Simple is good!<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Mounting the Climber<\/p>\n

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I think that wraps it up.\u00a0 I truly enjoyed this conference, it was a very worthwhile experience.\u00a0 As I had mentioned in an earlier post, there are things going on, exciting things that I’m not at liberty to divulge at this time.\u00a0 But more news should be coming foward very soon, in the weeks to months time frame.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned !<\/p>\n

(As always, click on the thumbnails for a larger version of the picture)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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