{"id":637,"date":"2007-06-04T21:50:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T02:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2007-06-07T17:27:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T22:27:48","slug":"637","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Modern Archimedes (aka KC Space Pirates) to perform demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Brian Turner and the Kansas City Space Pirates, one of the entrants into both last year’s and this year’s Space Elevator Games;<\/p>\n

The KC Space Pirates will be doing an “All up” demo this Friday and\u00a0Saturday with the action happening from Noon to 3:30 each day. We\u00a0will have a 50 ft crane rented for both days. This is for the benefit\u00a0of a photographer from the New York Times Magazine, but I want to\u00a0invite all of our fans and supporters out to take a look.<\/em><\/p>\n

We will need volunteers to aim the mirrors and I need to get a count\u00a0of how many will be there, So if you could please RSVP and state if\u00a0you will be coming and if you want to aim a mirror that would be\u00a0helpful. But feel free to stop by anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n

We are planning a special treat at 3:00 PM on Sat. We will try the\u00a0heliobeaming mirrors out as an Archimedes Death Ray. Surprisingly we\u00a0have never had the chance to do this before. So it could be a\u00a0historical event, or a bust. At over 500 square feet, our mirrors are\u00a0bigger than the ones used on the TV show Mythbusters. We will try to\u00a0set the focal distance to the “Standard” of 150 ft.<\/em><\/p>\n

Location:
\n10016 NW Skyview Ave
\nKCMO 64154<\/em><\/p>\n

When:
\n6\/8 and 6\/9 12:00 to 3:30 PM<\/em><\/p>\n

Directions:
\nI-29 toward the airport
\nExit Tiffany springs Take a right Toward Embassy Suites(East) Follow Tiffany springs parkway through 3 traffic circles heading\u00a0east. (1st right then 2nd right then 3rd right.)\u00a0 The former polo Club is on the NW corner of Tiffany Springs and Skyview. The driveway is right on the north edge of the 3rd traffic circle. Pull past the house and big barn to the parking lot on the right.\u00a0 Park on the black part of that lot.\u00a0 We have rented a crane but not a port-o-potty so take care.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hope to see you all there.<\/em><\/p>\n

Captain Brian Turner
\nbrian [AT] <\/at>kcspacepirates.com
\nKansas City Space Pirates<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This sounds very cool and is the first communication of many I hope to receive from the various teams detailing demos they’ll be doing of their equipment.<\/p>\n

What they need to do is to focus this beam onto a lake or pond\u00a0and have a model sailboat travel through the focal point.\u00a0 Or, to update it to more modern times, get a model airplane and fly it through the focal point.\u00a0 Seeing\u00a0either do so and then spontaneously burst into flames would generate some great footage!<\/p>\n

One note; Brian tells me the location may change.\u00a0 So, be sure to check their website<\/a> for the latest information if you plan to attend the demo.\u00a0 Brian, you will be shooting some video and posting it on your site or on YouTube, yes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Brian Turner and the Kansas City Space Pirates, one of the entrants into both last year’s and this year’s Space Elevator Games; The KC Space Pirates will be doing an “All up” demo this Friday and\u00a0Saturday with the action happening from Noon to 3:30 each day. We\u00a0will have a 50 ft crane rented for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}