{"id":801,"date":"2007-10-18T16:48:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T21:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2007-10-18T20:17:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T01:17:51","slug":"2007-space-elevator-games-entry-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"2007 Space Elevator Games – (Entry 33)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief update for today – videos to follow:<\/p>\n

The weather has been partly sunny, cold, but almost no wind.\u00a0 Ideal conditions for the Laser and Microwave teams, but none of them have been ready to go.<\/p>\n

E-T-C, powered by spotlights, made numerous attempts to qualify.\u00a0 Unfortunately they did not succeed.\u00a0 I haven’t gone to them yet to ask them for a post-mortem, but I will later on.<\/p>\n

Both the Technology Tycoons and UBC-Snowstar DID qualify today.\u00a0 Neither team was able to run to the top of the ribbon, but cloud conditions prevented all but a fraction of the sunlight reaching their mirrors.\u00a0 Because this was a “weather-related handicap”, they were adjudged to have qualified. (see correction below)<\/p>\n

The KC Space Pirates also made another run.\u00a0 They used more mirrors than they had in their qualification run and generally made this a practice pass.<\/p>\n

We’re shut down now for a few hours while the 400′ crane is moved into place.\u00a0 I don’t know if anyone is going to run on it or not, but we’ll see.\u00a0 I think we’ll also have the 100′ crane operational too.<\/p>\n

I also don’t know the status of the Microwave or Laser teams.\u00a0 We’ll find out in the next couple of hours.\u00a0 If they don’t succeed in qualifying today, I’m afraid they’ll be out of the competition.<\/p>\n

More later…<\/p>\n

Correction – stupid me.\u00a0 UBC DID reach the top of the ribbon, succesfully engaged with the Stop plate and made a controlled descent.\u00a0 I have it on tape (and am uploading it to YouTube.\u00a0 Sorry, UBC team, sorry, sorry, sorry)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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