{"id":780,"date":"2007-10-15T21:39:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T02:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2007-10-15T21:49:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T02:49:37","slug":"2007-space-elevator-games-entry-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"2007 Space Elevator Games &#8211; (Entry 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071015\/DSC00015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071015\/tn_DSC00015.jpg\"  height=\"113\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 113px\" \/><\/a>The picture is a closeup of a portion of the USST climber.\u00a0 The two tubes on either side, I am told, are to carry payload.\u00a0 In addition to having to climb 2 meters \/ second in order to qualify for prize money, the amount of payload being carried on a qualifying run is one of the elements in the formula to determine the winner.\u00a0 Click on the thumbnail for a larger version of the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of USST-related videos taken today.<\/p>\n<p>The first is their climber (minus the collectors).\u00a0 The USST Team members in the video told me that this is the real climber, not a mock-up or backup.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f8Uxp6LAwC4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This second video is of two USST team members preparing some water to be used in cooling their laser.\u00a0 They are filtering and de-ionizing ordinary tap water to suit their purpose.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R61hIEO1h2w[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture is a closeup of a portion of the USST climber.\u00a0 The two tubes on either side, I am told, are to carry payload.\u00a0 In addition to having to climb 2 meters \/ second in order to qualify for prize money, the amount of payload being carried on a qualifying run is one of [&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-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}