It’s the morning of the 17th.\u00a0 The weather is truly crappy, awful, pissy, sucky, rotten, nasty, etc., etc., etc.\u00a0 It looks like it’s lightening up a bit to the North-northwest, but nothing I would count on.<\/p>\n
In order to try and get the qualifications in, the rules have been relaxed.\u00a0 Spaceward personnel and volunteers are going to try to rig up a forklift unit to qualify on.\u00a0 This forklift unit can extend to about 30′ feet high.\u00a0 The trolley mechanism, normally hanging from the top of the crane, will now be hanging from the top of the forklift unit.<\/p>\n
For\u00a0qualification, it\u00a0will now no longer be necessary to beam power the climber; batteries or AC power are acceptable.\u00a0 Spaceward wants to verify that a team can mount the climber on a ribbon in a timely manner, have it ascend upwards to hit the cutoff switch on the trolley,\u00a0descend properly, and then be dismounted from the ribbon in a timely manner.\u00a0 There will also be no speed requirements because of the very short run.\u00a0 If a team can do this, it will be deemed “Qualified”.\u00a0 Of course for the real race, the original rules stay in effect; ascending about 100 meters at an average speed of 2 meters \/ second, carrying payload, etc.\u00a0 These revised rules are for qualifying only.<\/p>\n
All of the teams here which have not yet qualified (E-T-C, UBC-Snowstar, USST, LaserMotive, McGill and Technology Tycoons) have said that they are ready to qualify today under the modified rules.\u00a0 Spaceward personnel \/ volunteers are now busy modifying the trolley and supporting mechanisms to be suspended from the forklift rather than the crane.\u00a0 Assuming they can make this work, these revised qualifications will start at noon today.\u00a0 Of course I will be there, recording all…<\/p>\n
The video is one I took when I arrived this morning.<\/p>\n
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