{"id":677,"date":"2007-07-16T18:36:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T23:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2007-07-16T18:36:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T23:36:36","slug":"updates-from-liftport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Updates from LiftPort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"260\" src=\"\/media\/LiftPortNewLogo.jpg\"  height=\"60\" style=\"width: 260px; height: 60px\" \/>Over a dozen posts have been put up on the LiftPort blog in the past few days.\u00a0 Rather than summarize each one of them, I recommend that you just link over to the most recent post (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/progress\/wp\/?p=1218\">here<\/a>) and then just work your way backwards through the preceding posts.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the posts have to do with LiftPort photos posted on flickr and comments on their ongoing legal issues.\u00a0 But the\u00a0post titled\u00a0<a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/progress\/wp\/?p=1218\" title=\"Permanent Link: LiftPort\u2019s Tethered Towers, Trials and Triumph: Part 1 conclusion\">LiftPort\u2019s Tethered Towers, Trials and Triumph: Part 1 conclusion<\/a>\u00a0deserves special mention.\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;m a Systems guy from way back.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly with designing Systems and putting them together,\u00a0and I&#8217;ve contributed to each at various times.\u00a0 But I don&#8217;t recall participating in a\u00a0demo as trouble-plagued\u00a0as the one summarized\u00a0in this LiftPort post.\u00a0 If I was in this writer&#8217;s shoes, I&#8217;d have been seriously dependent on Prozac by the time this demo was completed.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a miracle they got\u00a0it working\u00a0at all.<\/p>\n<p>Read it and weep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a dozen posts have been put up on the LiftPort blog in the past few days.\u00a0 Rather than summarize each one of them, I recommend that you just link over to the most recent post (here) and then just work your way backwards through the preceding posts. Many of the posts have to do [&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-677","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\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}