{"id":806,"date":"2007-10-18T21:25:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T02:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2007-10-18T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T02:25:10","slug":"2007-space-elevator-games-entry-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"2007 Space Elevator Games &#8211; (Entry 38)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071018\/DSC000132.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"113\" src=\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/20071018\/tn_DSC00132.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 113px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve not written a lot about the laser-powered teams until now.\u00a0 Most of the attention has been focused on the solar teams and making sure that they could find conditions that they could run in.\u00a0 And, in truth, it&#8217;s just neater to video something which is climbing on the ribbon rather than on a workbench.<\/p>\n<p>USST is one of the two laser-powered teams in this year&#8217;s Games.\u00a0 Their laser operates at 808 nanometer wavelength.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0thumbnail is a picture of their climber.\u00a0 Click on it for a larger version.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video is a copy of one they kindly gave me.\u00a0 It shows a test of their laser.\u00a0 It&#8217;s shining on a welding cloth at a distance of 59 feet.\u00a0 You can the laser being turned on and then being focused in the video.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zKL2-RKDmRc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not written a lot about the laser-powered teams until now.\u00a0 Most of the attention has been focused on the solar teams and making sure that they could find conditions that they could run in.\u00a0 And, in truth, it&#8217;s just neater to video something which is climbing on the ribbon rather than on a workbench. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}