{"id":842,"date":"2007-10-22T18:13:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T23:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2007-10-22T18:13:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T23:13:38","slug":"2007-space-elevator-games-entry-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"2007 Space Elevator Games &#8211; (Entry 74)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071022\/DSC00416.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071022\/tn_DSC00415\"  height=\"113\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 113px\" \/><\/a>Snakebit,<\/p>\n<p>Snakebit, snakebit, snakebit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>USST had mounted their Climber on the ribbon.\u00a0 They were getting ready to start their run when the ribbon snapped AGAIN, this time from the top (the last time was from the bottom).<\/p>\n<p>The picture shows the USST climber with the snapped ribbon draped over it.\u00a0 Fortunately no one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know what happened.\u00a0 This Siegling ribbon is rated at 4,500 lbs.\u00a0 The maximum pressure put on it was 500-1,000 pounds.\u00a0 Maybe the ribbon is old or defective.\u00a0 Maybe the constant twisting, twisting, twisting it underwent over this last 9 days proved too much.\u00a0 Maybe its something else entirely (sabotage from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=822\">Skronk &amp; Greezle?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, it looks the competition is over for now.\u00a0 Spaceward is going to get together with the NASA representative and probably the USST team captain and decide what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Major, major bummer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As new information appears, I&#8217;ll keep you all posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snakebit, Snakebit, snakebit, snakebit&#8230; USST had mounted their Climber on the ribbon.\u00a0 They were getting ready to start their run when the ribbon snapped AGAIN, this time from the top (the last time was from the bottom). The picture shows the USST climber with the snapped ribbon draped over it.\u00a0 Fortunately no one was hurt. [&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-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}