{"id":687,"date":"2007-07-27T11:37:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2007-07-27T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:40:17","slug":"updates-from-lasermotive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Updates from LaserMotive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/LaserMotiveLogo.jpg\"  \/>There have been a couple of posts recently (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?p=48\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?p=50\">here<\/a>) on the LaserMotive blog, both concerning the mirror that they&#8217;re going to be using in the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elevator2010.org\">Space Elevator Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/KimInMirror.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_KimInMirror.jpg\"  height=\"189\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 189px\" \/><\/a>In the latest post, they include a cool photograph, showing\u00a0a reflection of someone from the coated side of their mirror, and discussing why they&#8217;re not concerned that\u00a0their mirror\u00a0doesn&#8217;t reflect visible light very well.<\/p>\n<p>I must say, of all the Space Elevator Team websites, only a few\u00a0are\u00a0updated\u00a0frequently.\u00a0 I\u00a0understand\u00a0that it takes extra work to keep a blog updated (well I know) and a lot of teams just don&#8217;t have the extra bandwidth to do this.\u00a0 Also, I&#8217;m sure that some teams are worried about giving too much away to the competition.\u00a0 With a half-million bucks at state, it&#8217;s hard to fault that logic.\u00a0 But I hope that the other teams will start posting some updates on their blogs soon, otherwise I&#8217;m going to have to subject them to one of my infamous interviews \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>(Click on the picture thumbnail, or check out the LaserMotive post, for a larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a couple of posts recently (here and here) on the LaserMotive blog, both concerning the mirror that they&#8217;re going to be using in the upcoming Space Elevator Games. In the latest post, they include a cool photograph, showing\u00a0a reflection of someone from the coated side of their mirror, and discussing why they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/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-687","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\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}