{"id":1272,"date":"2009-08-27T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2009-08-27T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T05:40:08","slug":"videos-from-japans-first-space-elevator-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Videos from Japan’s first Space Elevator Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does the above screenshot (which I absolutely LOVE) have to do with the Japan Space Elevator Games?\u00a0 Bear with me…<\/p>\n

One of the items<\/a> which recently popped up into my RSS Reader was a story discussing Japan’s first Space Elevator Game competition (JSETEC).\u00a0 This competition took place just a couple of weekends ago (August 8th and 9th) and I had previously posted about it (here<\/a>) and included some pictures that Shuichi Ohno, President of the Japan Space Elevator Association<\/a> (JSEA) had sent me.<\/p>\n

This news story (from Japana.com – addicted to Japan!<\/a>) had a video from the competition, a very interesting one which gave a climbers-eye view of the winning entrant.<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gr549hMBoq8[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

When I saw this video, I immediately thought of the similar-type video that was shot from the Kansas City Space Pirates’ Climber during the 2007 Video Games.<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iEvmd4esiaA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

The video of the climber from the Japan Space Elevator Games was from the winning entrant, WARRSETEAM, a team from Germany.\u00a0 I think I’ve posted<\/a> about this team before, but I’m not sure it’s them – when I click on the link in my previous posting to their team website I get the infamous ‘404<\/a>‘ message.\u00a0 Anyway, the WARRSETEAM video in this post shows them climbing 120 meters in 25 seconds, about 4.8 meters \/ second.\u00a0 To be eligible for the $2 Million prize in the US Space Elevator Games, the climber has to travel 5 meters \/ second.\u00a0 Yes, I know, it has to be over a full kilometer and it has to be beam powered (the Climbers in the Japanese Games were battery powered), but it’s very instructive to see what nearly 5 meters \/ second looks like.\u00a0 The Climber is zipping right along, no doubt about it…<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you go to YouTube and do a search on WARRSETEAM, you see that they have their own channel<\/a> with 5 videos in it.\u00a0 The first three show their climber in various stages of development while the other two show competition runs.<\/p>\n

Now, to relate this back to the Moose, before I got smart and searched on WARRSETEAM, I first tried using “weltraumaufzug” (the German translation of “Space Elevator”) as my search term and turned up this gem;<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JzJikhY0Xr0[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

This is apparently a German-language news show, which gives a quick overview of several subjects.\u00a0 One of the was the Space Elevator and Space Elevator Games and they showed a) where the competition is being held this year and b) a photo of the winning USST team from the last Games.\u00a0 The lead-in to the story was the picture at the beginning of the post.\u00a0 Next to the moose and his girlfriend is the term “Weltraumaufzug”, which is German for “Space Elevator”.<\/p>\n

So you see?\u00a0 It all relates.\u00a0 Incidentally, there are several other “Weltraumaufzug” YouTube videos, so I’ve got some more stuff to search.\u00a0 And it occurs to me that I have the translation of Space Elevator in several other languages so I can do even more searches…<\/p>\n

Finally (and totally off topic), I’m adding this japana.com<\/a> blog to my RSS feeds – there is some really cool stuff on it.\u00a0 They have a video of two teenage girls “popping”.\u00a0 These girls can dance!<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=imChTMwGVQc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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