{"id":21581,"date":"2015-08-19T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21581"},"modified":"2015-08-19T08:01:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:01:24","slug":"space-elevator-could-lift-people-12-miles-into-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/08\/19\/space-elevator-could-lift-people-12-miles-into-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Space elevator could lift people 12 miles into the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CBS News<\/em> has the article <a title=\"CBS News article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/space-elevator-could-lift-people-12-miles-up-in-the-air\/\" target=\"_blank\">Space elevator could lift people 12 miles into the air<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Canadian space company was recently awarded a patent for a <a title=\"space.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/27225-space-elevator-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\">space elevator<\/a> that would reach about 12 miles (20 kilometers) above the Earth&#8217;s surface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the really curious, here is what the articles are leaving out &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.by\/patents\/US9085897\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google article on the patent\">US Patent 9085897 \u201cSpace Elevator\u201d<\/a>.  Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/web\/patents\/patog\/week29\/OG\/html\/1416-3\/US09085897-20150721.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"US Pat Off patent\">patent on the US Patent Office web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thothx.com\/news-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Press release from Thoth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thothx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150723_space_elevator_farshot_1.jpg\" alt=\"space elevator\" width=\"1915\" height=\"955\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News has the article Space elevator could lift people 12 miles into the air. A Canadian space company was recently awarded a patent for a space elevator that would reach about 12 miles (20 kilometers) above the Earth&#8217;s surface. For the really curious, here is what the articles are leaving out &#8211; US Patent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21581"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21587,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions\/21587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}