{"id":996,"date":"2008-05-07T21:41:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T02:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2008-05-07T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T02:45:23","slug":"space-elevator-potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Space Elevator Potpourri…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Well, that didn’t take long.\u00a0 The video clip I put up of Brian Turner of the Kansas City Space Pirates<\/a> appearing on the Conan O’Brien show has been taken down due to “Copyright violations”.\u00a0 I don’t know why – there’s a ton of other Conan video clips up on YouTube.\u00a0 Maybe someone from another Climber\/Power-Beaming team complained because they thought that Brian was getting too much publicity \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Anyway, you can go to the Conan O’Brien website and see the clip.\u00a0 Don’t\u00a0delay though,\u00a0it probably won’t be up there for long either.\u00a0 Go to this website<\/a>, navigate to the “May 2nd” episode and then select on “Brian Turner”.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I received a couple of photos from Akira Tsuchida, Captain and Fearless Leader of team\u00a0E-T-C<\/a>, showing the Japanese translation of the Edwards-Ragan book “Leaving the Planet by Space Elevator”<\/em><\/a> on sale at a Japanese bookstore.\u00a0 When Akira first wrote me about this, he exclaimed that the book was “Laying on it’s side!!”<\/em>\u00a0 I had no clue why that was important until he explained to me that this was reserved only for books\u00a0with multiple copies\u00a0– a position of prominence I’m told.\u00a0 On a related note, I received an email from Phil Ragan, the co-author of the book.\u00a0 He emailed me to say; “I just saw your spaceelevatorblog.com web site for the first time, sorry I hadn’t come across it earlier.\u00a0 Thanks for the supportive words about our book! The intent was to increase the public awareness of the project and help it along in some way.\u00a0 We’ve just had the Japanese version of the book released and it is in the stores in Tokyo and available at amazon.com.jp and its prompting the book publisher to consider taking us up for a second edition in English, which would be great if it happens.”<\/em>\u00a0 So, way cool…<\/p>\n

<\/a>On the Spaceward Foundation\u00a0website<\/a>, there is an “Artist’s rendition” (complete with Homer Simpson) of a mockup of what the 2008 Space Elevator Games venue might look like (if it’s held at Meteor Crater in Arizona).\u00a0 This mockup will be on display at this year’s ISDC<\/a> and SEC2008<\/a> (and probably some other venues too).<\/p>\n

Speaking of ISDC, Ben Shelef of the Spaceward Foundation will be there (with the aforementioned venue mockup) along with\u00a0representatives of some of the teams entering this year’s Space Elevator competition.\u00a0 I may make it there myself – we’ll see…<\/p>\n

And, speaking of the Space Elevator games, the observant may note that the date for these games (posted on the sidebar of this blog) has been changed from September 8th to September 26th-28th.\u00a0 The September 8th date was never really ‘set in stone’ – it was just a target date.\u00a0 The 26th-28th dates (with qualifications beginning on the 23rd or 24th) is a much more firm date.<\/p>\n

<\/a>And finally, just another example of how the term “Space Elevator” is entering into the everyday lexicon.\u00a0 In this article<\/a>, the author is complaining about the rise in diesel fuel prices saying; “Sure, fuel spikes aren\u2019t new, but this time it\u2019s less of a roller-coaster ride than a space elevator.”<\/em><\/p>\n

(Gas price sign from here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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