{"id":825,"date":"2007-10-20T19:43:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T00:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2007-10-20T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T00:48:21","slug":"2007-space-elevator-games-entry-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"2007 Space Elevator Games &#8211; (Entry 56)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071020\/DSC00277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071020\/tn_DSC00277.jpg\"  height=\"113\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 113px\" \/><\/a>Well that was anticlimactic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Astroaraneae and\u00a0Delta-X both mounted their tethers on the machine (this was after the judges determined that both tethers met the weight and length requirement).\u00a0 Pressure was applied and almost immediately the Delta-X tether parted &#8211; the knot slipped.\u00a0 Delta X had a second tether they mounted, but this was just for show.\u00a0 It only weighed 1.3 grams (as opposed to the Astroaraneae tether of 2 grams) and all were sure it would not stand a chance.\u00a0 Pressure was applied and the Delta-X tether parted almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Then Ken Davidian, the NASA rep for the Centennial Challenges,\u00a0announced that the Astroaraneae tether would now\u00a0be competing against the house tether for the Prize money ($500K).\u00a0 However, at that point, Michael Remington, team leader of Astroaraneae, took the microphone and announced\u00a0they would NOT be competing against the house tether &#8211; they forfeited their chance to win the prize.\u00a0 They said\u00a0their goal in coming here to was to prove\u00a0they\u00a0still had the strongest tether in the world (but not 50% stronger than a COTS tether &#8211; the house tether) and that they were &#8220;still champions&#8221; of all the teams.\u00a0 Obviously they felt like they had no chance to win, but it was a major disappointment to me (and I&#8217;m sure other) to not be able to see how far the state of the art has advanced.<\/p>\n<p>So, no winner in the Tether challenge this year and I think I can speak for everyone in the audience in saying that the out come was\u00a0very disappointing, both in what it was and in the way it happened.<\/p>\n<p>The $500K prize money rolls over to next year &#8211; next year&#8217;s\u00a0Tether Challenge purse will now be $900K (the $200K rolling over from 2006 plus the $300K rolling over from\u00a0this year\u00a0and the $400K allocated to $2008).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope for a better competition and\u00a0better results next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well that was anticlimactic&#8230; Astroaraneae and\u00a0Delta-X both mounted their tethers on the machine (this was after the judges determined that both tethers met the weight and length requirement).\u00a0 Pressure was applied and almost immediately the Delta-X tether parted &#8211; the knot slipped.\u00a0 Delta X had a second tether they mounted, but this was just for [&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-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}