{"id":920,"date":"2008-02-09T15:07:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T20:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=920"},"modified":"2008-02-09T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T20:07:24","slug":"the-mccain-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"The McCain Space Elevator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"71\" src=\"\/media\/Elephant.gif\" height=\"147\" style=\"width: 71px; height: 147px\" \/>In March of 2006, economist and writer\/blogger\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sophia.smith.edu\/~jdmiller\/resume.html\">James D. Miller<\/a> wrote an essay for TCSDaily called &#8220;Elevating Elephants&#8221; (which I linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=101\">here<\/a>), an article calling for the Republican Party to commit the US Government to build a Space Elevator by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>With McCain the evident Republican nominee,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jamesdmiller.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/mccains-space-elevator.html\">Mr. Miller is now\u00a0calling for<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Building a space elevator has just become vastly more practical because scientists have figured out how to&#8221;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=126\"><font color=\"#9e5205\"><em>grow nanowires of unlimited length<\/em><\/font><\/a><em>.&#8221; So I now urge John McCain to advocate building a space elevator. McCain seems like the type of politician who would support a bold project that would showcase America&#8217;s technological dominance while giving the U.S. military a tremendous boost.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a McCain fan in any way, shape or form, but if he did this I would certainly applaud &#8211; I&#8217;d even let them name it after him (The &#8220;McCainevator&#8221;?)\u00a0 Of course I&#8217;m not going to hold my breath&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March of 2006, economist and writer\/blogger\u00a0 James D. Miller wrote an essay for TCSDaily called &#8220;Elevating Elephants&#8221; (which I linked to here), an article calling for the Republican Party to commit the US Government to build a Space Elevator by 2020. With McCain the evident Republican nominee,\u00a0Mr. Miller is now\u00a0calling for: Building a space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}