{"id":714,"date":"2007-08-29T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T13:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2007-08-29T13:57:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T18:57:46","slug":"news-from-the-mcgill-space-elevator-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"News from the McGill Space Elevator Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"164\" src=\"\/media\/McGillSpaceElevatorTeamLogo.jpg\"  height=\"100\" style=\"width: 164px; height: 100px\" \/>One of the first-time entrants in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elevator2010.org\">Space Elevator Games<\/a> is the McGill Space Elevator Elevator team, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/\">McGill University<\/a> in\u00a0Montreal, Canada.\u00a0 Now I have a special affinity for that town; my wife was born and raised in the Montreal area, most of her relatives\u00a0live in and around\u00a0Montreal and she and I were married in Montreal.\u00a0 Suffice it to say that I have spent a fair amount of time there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/McGill001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_McGill001.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>So I was pleased to receive an email yesterday from Cyrus, one of the team members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/space-elevator.mcgill.ca\/\">McGill Space Elevator Team<\/a>, informing me that they are in the process of updating their web site and sending me a couple of photos from their teams appearance at Discover McGill, a campuswide orientation for all first-year students at McGill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/McGill002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_McGill002.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>This team has been pretty quiet about what type of entry they&#8217;re going to have in this years competition and I&#8217;ll be contacting them (and all of the other teams) soon to set up some interviews.\u00a0 In the meantime, enjoy the photos (click on them for a larger version).<\/p>\n<p><em>(Update 29AUG07 &#8211; I inadvertently posted the same picture twice &#8211; this is now fixed &#8211; sorry)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first-time entrants in this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games is the McGill Space Elevator Elevator team, from McGill University in\u00a0Montreal, Canada.\u00a0 Now I have a special affinity for that town; my wife was born and raised in the Montreal area, most of her relatives\u00a0live in and around\u00a0Montreal and she and I were married [&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-714","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\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}