{"id":663,"date":"2007-07-01T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T16:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2007-07-01T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T16:39:03","slug":"i-must-have-a-few-hundred-years-of-bad-luck-ahead-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"“I must have a few hundred years of bad luck ahead of me”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>This headline is a quote from Brian Turner,\u00a0captain of the Kansas City Space Pirates, and is found in today’s (July 1st, 2007) New York Times Magazine.\u00a0 He’s referring to all the mirrors he’s broken as part of his effort to build his team’s entry into the Space Elevator Games<\/a> Climber\/Power Beaming contest.\u00a0 A picture of Brian, happily engaged in his workshop, is on the cover of the same magazine.<\/p>\n

The author of the article, Jack Hitt, covers many of the NASA Centennial prizes, and talks about how NASA is using these prizes to reach out to amateur inventors, like Brian, to help reinvigorate its exploration programs.\u00a0 It’s a fine article and a great read (though I’m going to have to email him about what a “liftport ambassador<\/a>” really is)…\u00a0 The article also\u00a0discusses\u00a0how Peter Homer won a Centennial prize by building a better Space glove<\/p>\n

<\/a>If you want to read the entire article (which I highly recommend you do), you can either purchase today’s NY Times or you can view the article online here<\/a>.\u00a0 The online article also contains a link to a video made about Peter Homer and his winning glove entry.\u00a0 Of note here is that, like the\u00a0NASA Tether competition\u00a0the “Build a better glove” contest also has\u00a0a destructive test; pumping the glove full of pressurized water until it springs a leak.\u00a0 Frankly, I think the Tether test is more fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And Brian, what kind of dog is that?\u00a0 Those are\u00a0the longest legs I’ve ever seen on a dog – it reminds me of the Star Wars AT-AT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Photo credits: Jeff Riedel for the New York Times – click on the thumbnails to view a larger version<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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