2007 Space Elevator Games – (Entry 66)

Here is a video of USST’s attermpt to win the Prize money last night.  It didn’t succeed because of an issue they had with the climber, but it has to rank as one of the coolest videos ever.

USST uses an Infrared laser, something normally invisible to the human eye.  However, it shows up just fine on something equipped with infrared-seeing capabilities.  Most any device that has a “night vision” option can see this and, fortunately, my camcorder has it too.  So you can actually see the laser-beam itself – absolutely and monumentally cool.

There are a couple of chunks within the video when I switch my camcorder back to “normal” vision, just to see what I could see – not much as you’ll find out when you watch this.  And the climber itself is drastically overexposed with this “laser-vision”.

Nevertheless, this easily ranks as the cooliest clip this video rookie has ever shot.

Enjoy…

USST assures me that they have the problem taken care of – let’s hope they rock today.

THIS is the future…