{"id":716,"date":"2007-08-31T18:41:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T23:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2007-08-31T18:43:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T23:43:56","slug":"venue-for-2007-space-elevator-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Venue for 2007 Space Elevator Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"108\" src=\"\/media\/Elevator2010Logo.jpg\"  height=\"53\" style=\"width: 108px; height: 53px\" \/><a href=\"\/media\/SEGVenueGoogleEarth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_SEGVenueGoogleEarth.jpg\"  height=\"138\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 138px\" \/><\/a>As many of you know, the Space Elevator Games will be held this year at the Davis County Fairgrounds, just North of Salt Lake City, Utah.\u00a0 Google Earth provides an excellent overview (pun intended) of the location.\u00a0 If you key in the correct coordinates (40 degrees, 58 minutes, 35.09 seconds North and 111 degrees, 54 minutes, 33.42 seconds West), you&#8217;ll zoom right into it.\u00a0 I love Google Earth.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so much fun to use, it works so well, it&#8217;s so smooth and, to tell the truth, it&#8217;s a bit creepy (zooming into your house).\u00a0 To the right of this paragraph is a thumbnail of what you will see in Google Earth &#8211; click on it for a full size version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/SEGVenuePhoto001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_SEGVenuePhoto001.jpg\"  height=\"161\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 161px\" \/><\/a>Ben\u00a0Shelef, CEO of both Spaceward and Elevator 2010, recently visited the Venue.\u00a0 He took several pictures, which you can view as a Microsoft word file (<a href=\"\/media\/Beam power arena layout.doc\">here<\/a>)\u00a0or .pdf (<a href=\"\/media\/Beam power arena layout.pdf\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 One of the pictures is reproduced in this post &#8211; click on it for a larger version.<\/p>\n<p>Less than seven weeks and counting &#8211; I can hardly wait!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, the Space Elevator Games will be held this year at the Davis County Fairgrounds, just North of Salt Lake City, Utah.\u00a0 Google Earth provides an excellent overview (pun intended) of the location.\u00a0 If you key in the correct coordinates (40 degrees, 58 minutes, 35.09 seconds North and 111 degrees, 54 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}