{"id":16144,"date":"2015-08-15T08:46:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T15:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/company-in-canada-gets-u-s-patent-for-space-elevator"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:18","slug":"company-in-canada-gets-u-s-patent-for-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/company-in-canada-gets-u-s-patent-for-space-elevator","title":{"rendered":"Company in Canada gets U.S. patent for space elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/company-in-canada-gets-u-s-patent-for-space-elevator.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exploring space while seated on Earth, gazing up on screens in museum theaters or at home via VR headsets. is exciting but the top imagination-grabber is the very idea of finding a way to access space. This is the present-day realm of creative thinking over space elevators, in the use of a giant tower to carry us to space.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists working on space elevators are thinking about materials and designs that can be used to access space as an alternative to rocket technology. A sign of the times is the upcoming Space Elevator Conference 2015 which takes place this month in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isec.org\/sec\/\">Seattle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, said The Spaceward Foundation, the <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/space+elevator\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"textTag\">space elevator<\/a>, serving as a track on which electric vehicles called \u201cclimbers\u201d can travel up and down carrying about 10 tons of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\/elevator\">payload<\/a>.\u201cThere are no intense gravity-loads during the trip, no acoustic vibration, no onboard fuel, nor any of the rest of the drama (and cost) associated with rocket launches,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-08-company-canada-patent-space-elevator.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring space while seated on Earth, gazing up on screens in museum theaters or at home via VR headsets. is exciting but the top imagination-grabber is the very idea of finding a way to access space. This is the present-day realm of creative thinking over space elevators, in the use of a giant tower to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69720,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144\/revisions\/69720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}