{"id":965,"date":"2008-03-28T00:05:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T05:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=965"},"modified":"2008-03-28T00:05:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T05:05:03","slug":"and-the-germans-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"And the Germans say no&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the German WARR team will NOT be competing this year.\u00a0 Today, I received this email from Andreas Hein, WARR team member:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hi Ted,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nice to hear from you! We already studied the rulebook for this year and unfortunately we don&#8217;t see a chance to participate successfully. This is due to the significant increase of the climbing height and the changed geometry from a ribbon to a rope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In 2008 we&#8217;ll continue to optimize our system and conduct extended testing. There is also a study on its way to investigate whether we may participate in the competition in 2009 from a energy transmission point of view.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We&#8217;ll try to give you further information as soon as our future planning is set and hope to stay in contact with you!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kind regards,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Andreas Hein<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn &#8211; I would have loved to see that 30 meter emitter.\u00a0 If I make it to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurospaceward.org\/\">2nd\u00a0European Workshop on Space Elevator Design<\/a>, maybe I can arrange a side trip to check it out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope we can see this team compete next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the German WARR team will NOT be competing this year.\u00a0 Today, I received this email from Andreas Hein, WARR team member: Hi Ted, Nice to hear from you! We already studied the rulebook for this year and unfortunately we don&#8217;t see a chance to participate successfully. This is due to the significant [&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-965","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\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}