{"id":625,"date":"2007-05-23T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T21:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2007-05-24T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T08:12:10","slug":"wwwtetheredtowerscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"www.TetheredTowers.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"161\" src=\"\/media\/tn_MichaelLaine.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 161px; height: 200px\" \/>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespaceshow.com\/detail.asp?q=717\">yesterday&#8217;s Space Show<\/a>, Dr. David Livingston interviewed Liftport&#8217;s President &amp; CEO Michael Laine.\u00a0 Michael described, in painful detail, how he and LiftPort arrived at their current situation.\u00a0 There were a number of great quotes from Michael during this show, among them being;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d rather build an elevator to space than cure cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d rather build an elevator to space than an office building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And my favorite; &#8220;We can make a fair amount of money off the tethered towers.&#8221;\u00a0 The title of this web posting was derived from that quote.\u00a0 Michael was quite clear; LiftPort is now going to concentrate on generating revenue from their Tethered tower product\/technology.\u00a0 If they can&#8217;t make this work, then they are going to close the doors of LiftPort&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>They have a new website devoted to this new focus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tetheredtowers.com\/\">www.TetheredTowers.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I urge all of those interested in the concept of the Space Elevator to listen to this interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On yesterday&#8217;s Space Show, Dr. David Livingston interviewed Liftport&#8217;s President &amp; CEO Michael Laine.\u00a0 Michael described, in painful detail, how he and LiftPort arrived at their current situation.\u00a0 There were a number of great quotes from Michael during this show, among them being; &#8220;I&#8217;d rather build an elevator to space than cure cancer.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;d rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-presentations","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","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=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}