Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, the BBC Video with the National Space Society (NSS) Space Elevator Team is now available (I blogged about this earlier, here).

The theme is that the Space Elevator would make a wonderful vehicle for lifting Solar Power Satellites into space.  The video is in two parts;

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OKbeb2Rank&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVM31dvngmE&feature=related[/youtube]

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It’s nice to see Matt Abrahms (from the old StarClimber team) again – Hi Matt!

Enjoy…

Oh, and the quote in the title of this post?  That comes from the narrator of these videos, James May.  He also has that wonderful pronunciation of our state of Maryland (“Mare-eee-land”).