{"id":995,"date":"2008-05-03T13:09:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T18:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2008-05-07T23:48:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T04:48:46","slug":"it-will-be-filled-with-drifters-loners-and-prostitutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"‘It will be filled with drifters, loners and prostitutes…’"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>This was Conan O’Brien’s joking response to Brian Turner’s description of the “Space Elevator highway(s) to Space”.<\/p>\n

Brian Turner of the Kansas City Space Pirates<\/a> appeared on Friday night’s Conan O’Brien show.\u00a0 I thought the interview went well and that Brian\u00a0handled himself very commendably.\u00a0 It’s not easy, being interviewed live like that.\u00a0 Many, many years ago, I had one very forgettable instance\u00a0in a\u00a0TV interview and I am eternally grateful\u00a0the TV network chose not to air my mumblings…<\/p>\n

Clearly Conan understood the concept of a Space Elevator; either he knew it beforehand or had been coached prior to the show.\u00a0 His questions were accurate and Brian handled them well.\u00a0 There was one comment by Brian where I thought he had clearly misspoke – describing the probable site of a future Space Elevator port as being in the Pacific Ocean, “south of Kansas City.”\u00a0 But I looked on a globe and darned if it isn’t true…<\/p>\n

My only complaint would be that they did not mention the Space Elevator Games at all.\u00a0\u00a0I think this would have given the concept much more credibility; NASA putting up 4 million dollars in prize money and that what Brian’s team (one of many in the event) is building is an entry\u00a0for this competition, not a real Space Elevator.\u00a0 But still, Conan O’Brien…<\/p>\n

Well done Brian!<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OKO0IpPHnSw[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

(Update 07MAY08 – YouTube has taken down the video.\u00a0 To see it, visit the Conan O’Brien website<\/a>, navigate to the May 2nd episode and then select ‘Brian Turner’.\u00a0 Do it soon, though – I don’t think episodes stay up very long on this site either…)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was Conan O’Brien’s joking response to Brian Turner’s description of the “Space Elevator highway(s) to Space”. Brian Turner of the Kansas City Space Pirates appeared on Friday night’s Conan O’Brien show.\u00a0 I thought the interview went well and that Brian\u00a0handled himself very commendably.\u00a0 It’s not easy, being interviewed live like that.\u00a0 Many, many years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-presentations","category-pictures-drawings-animations-music-humor-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}