{"id":778,"date":"2007-10-15T18:26:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T23:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2007-10-15T18:26:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T23:26:39","slug":"2007-space-elevator-games-entry-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"2007 Space Elevator Games &#8211; (Entry 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071015\/IMAG0017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071015\/tn_IMAG0017.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>Problems for the McGill Space Elevator team.\u00a0 It seems that they had an accident on the way to the Fairgrounds.\u00a0 From the photo, it looks like they took a turn too fast and the truck tipped over.\u00a0 I&#8217;m told, however, that something went wrong with one of their wheels and they got hit by a tractor-trailer.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if that is true &#8211; I&#8217;ll have to wait to talk to them to get the straight skinny.<\/p>\n<p>I received two emails from Cyrus.\u00a0 The first (accompanied by the picture) reads as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>FYI, our wrecked trailer. At least no one was hurt.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll be in Farmington soon!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s good news.\u00a0 Equipment can be replaced, people cannot.\u00a0 The second email reads as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Ted,<\/em><em>I see you&#8217;ve renamed us McGillworks. We actually have our own<br \/>\nwhite-light beam powered system we&#8217;re going to attempt first, so we&#8217;re<br \/>\nindeed &#8216;McGill Space Elevator Team&#8217;!<\/em><em>See you this morning.<\/em><em>Cyrus<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it looks like we&#8217;ll see them on Tuesday morning.\u00a0 Hopefully their equipment was undamaged, or at least repairable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Click on the thumbnail for a larger version of the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problems for the McGill Space Elevator team.\u00a0 It seems that they had an accident on the way to the Fairgrounds.\u00a0 From the photo, it looks like they took a turn too fast and the truck tipped over.\u00a0 I&#8217;m told, however, that something went wrong with one of their wheels and they got hit by a [&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-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}