{"id":900,"date":"2008-01-19T03:45:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T08:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2008-02-14T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T23:29:07","slug":"correction-and-future-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Correction and future posts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/Doh.gif\"  \/>As has been pointed out to me (several times), the original numbers I posted (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=866\">here<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=867\">here<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=872\">here<\/a>) for the strength of the Carbon nanotube fibers announced during the recent EuroSpaceward event\u00a0\u00a0are wrong; the correct number should be ~9 GPa\u00a0&#8211; 9 N\/tex.\u00a0 This is still a very significant achievement and if anyone shows up at the upcoming Space Elevator game with a tether this strong, they\u00a0will blow the house tether completely away.<\/p>\n<p>I will put up a post in the near future about how tether strength is measured and how I went awry.\u00a0 It turns out to be a bit more complicated than I thought (gee, why I am not surprised?)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However, for the next week or so, and in conjunction with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/x7766.xml\">Photonics West Trade Show<\/a> which begins tomorrow, I will be doing a series of post on a) some of the Climber teams who are going to be competing this year and b) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trumpf-laser.com\/\">TRUMPF<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dilas.com\/\">DILAS<\/a>; two vendors who are really stepping up to further the concept of a Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Homer pix from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.blandyuk.co.uk\/imgs\/homer_doh.gif&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.batacas.com\/foros\/showthread.php%3Ft%3D13117%26page%3D72&amp;h=146&amp;w=160&amp;sz=12&amp;tbnid=GdSUCjazudwDsM:&amp;tbnh=89&amp;tbnw=98&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dhomer%2Bdoh%26um%3D1&amp;start=2&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=images&amp;ct=image&amp;cd=2\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As has been pointed out to me (several times), the original numbers I posted (here, here and here) for the strength of the Carbon nanotube fibers announced during the recent EuroSpaceward event\u00a0\u00a0are wrong; the correct number should be ~9 GPa\u00a0&#8211; 9 N\/tex.\u00a0 This is still a very significant achievement and if anyone shows up at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","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=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}