{"id":606,"date":"2007-05-01T21:55:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T02:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2007-05-01T21:55:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T02:55:35","slug":"whats-going-on-with-liftport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s going on with 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\" \/>Michael Laine is now trying to build up LiftPort&#8217;s presence in cyber-space.\u00a0 He talks about this effort on the LiftPort blog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/progress\/wp\/?p=1161\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/progress\/wp\/?p=1163\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/progress\/wp\/?p=1164\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 He also wants to recruit others into this effort and is openly appealing for some cyber-help.<\/p>\n<p>The NSS Space Elevator Chapter weighs in on Michael&#8217;s efforts <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlewebcrafters.com\/nsecc\/?q=node\/view\/93\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael\/LiftPort are obviously between a rock and a hard place.\u00a0 There can be no Space Elevator without qualifying carbon nanotubes and those don&#8217;t appear to be imminent\u00a0(please, please, please, someone announce them tomorrow and prove me wrong).\u00a0 So it&#8217;s a question of surviving, in some form or another, until the ribbon material\u00a0arrives on the scene.\u00a0 And that survival can take the shape of moving into different markets, markets where one can actually sell product (and have a business plan that can attract investors), and\/or living in cyber-space, trying to move the project along, until the nanotube logjam is broken.<\/p>\n<p>Michael appears to be doing both, actively looking for applications for his balloon-tether-and-climber, as well as beefing up his cyber-presence.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve sent him what thoughts\/suggestions I have and I know that many others have too.\u00a0 I hope that something clicks for him soon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Laine is now trying to build up LiftPort&#8217;s presence in cyber-space.\u00a0 He talks about this effort on the LiftPort blog\u00a0here, here and here.\u00a0 He also wants to recruit others into this effort and is openly appealing for some cyber-help. The NSS Space Elevator Chapter weighs in on Michael&#8217;s efforts here. Michael\/LiftPort are obviously between [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}