{"id":755,"date":"2007-10-05T11:48:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T16:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2007-10-05T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T16:48:41","slug":"how-to-really-fix-a-ribbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"How to (really) fix a ribbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"151\" src=\"\/media\/LaserMotiveLogo.jpg\"  height=\"56\" style=\"width: 151px; height: 56px\" \/>Several days ago, LaserMotive put up an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?p=83\">entry<\/a> on their blog describing a tear that had developed in their test ribbon and asking for people to comment on how they thought it might be fixed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/MendedRibbon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_MendedRibbon.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=749\">wrote<\/a> on my blog, slightly tongue-in-cheek, that this would be a perfect job for duct tape, but later, on the LaserMotive website, put up my real suggestion (basically sewing it back together).<\/p>\n<p>LaserMotive has now documented how they have fixed this problem.\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?p=86\">here<\/a> to see both their temporary and permanent solution.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Picture from the LaserMotive blog.\u00a0 Click on it or visit their blog to view a larger version.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several days ago, LaserMotive put up an entry on their blog describing a tear that had developed in their test ribbon and asking for people to comment on how they thought it might be fixed. I wrote on my blog, slightly tongue-in-cheek, that this would be a perfect job for duct tape, but later, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","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=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}