{"id":594,"date":"2007-04-18T22:17:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T03:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=594"},"modified":"2007-04-18T23:37:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T04:37:04","slug":"more-on-liftport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"More on LiftPort&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"260\" src=\"\/media\/LiftPortNewLogo.jpg\"  height=\"60\" style=\"width: 260px; height: 60px\" \/>Alan Boyle, from MSNBC&#8217;s The Cosmic Log, has just\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2007\/04\/18\/157110.aspx\">posted<\/a> what, IMHO, is the most complete coverage (so far) on the problems at LiftPort and Michael Laine&#8217;s response to them.\u00a0 Michael is going to go, full-bore, into trying to commercialize their balloon-platform product in an attempt to\u00a0save the company.\u00a0 Alan&#8217;s article is very comprehensive and is highly recommended reading.<\/p>\n<p>Michael, I can&#8217;t think of any brilliant ideas, at the moment, for your balloon-platform product, but you have my promise that a) I&#8217;m going to seriously think about it and b) if I come up with ANYTHING, I will surely let you know.<\/p>\n<p>I call on the rest of the Space Elevator Community to do likewise.\u00a0 LiftPort is too valuable to let it go under.\u00a0 If you have a good idea, even a crazy idea, send it along to Michael &#8211; we may all benefit from it.<\/p>\n<p>Also, at the Space Elevator Reference, Michael Laine has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevator.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/liftport_the_sp.html#comments\">responded<\/a> to Marc Boucher&#8217;s editorial on the issues at LiftPort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Boyle, from MSNBC&#8217;s The Cosmic Log, has just\u00a0posted what, IMHO, is the most complete coverage (so far) on the problems at LiftPort and Michael Laine&#8217;s response to them.\u00a0 Michael is going to go, full-bore, into trying to commercialize their balloon-platform product in an attempt to\u00a0save the company.\u00a0 Alan&#8217;s article is very comprehensive and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}