It’s a picture of USST’s successful qualification climb.\u00a0 Marc has much better low-light photography equipment than I do, so he was able to capture this picture.\u00a0 You’ll note that on the right side of the picture (and illuminated by USST’s laser), you’ll see a UFO!\u00a0 It’s a spy-ship from an Alien civilization.<\/p>\n Now, even though Marc has the better low-light camera,\u00a0I’m the one who has\u00a0contact with a\u00a0super-secret\u00a0guy who works at a super-secret sub-agency of the super-secret NSA.\u00a0 These guys\u00a0listen to everything, as you know.\u00a0 They are even able to tap into the transmissions of these Aliens.\u00a0 The aliens, as many people\u00a0are aware\u00a0(but\u00a0our government refuses to acknowledge) have been monitering us for many decades.\u00a0\u00a0But our\u00a0double-extra-super-secret agency\u00a0has been\u00a0monitering the Alien transmissions as well, and have been able to translate them\u00a0into English.<\/p>\n Following is the transcript (provided by my most-hidden contact who resides in an undisclosed location a safe distance away from Dick Cheney’s shotgun) of the conversation in the cabin of the spy ship plus the transmissions between them and their mother-ship (located in the L5 Lagrange\u00a0point).<\/p>\n So that you can better understand this transcript,\u00a0let me\u00a0explain who the “players” are.\u00a0 Skronk and Greezle (phonetic translations of their names) are the captain and co-captain of the spy ship (the one captured in the photograph).\u00a0 Skippy is the\u00a0commander of\u00a0the mother-ship.<\/p>\n The transcript begins just before USST’s qualification run.<\/p>\n Skronk: Stupid humans.\u00a0 They’ll never get laser power-beaming to work.\u00a0 You need a government to do something like this.\u00a0 It’s so funny to watch these pathetic creatures try to do this as part of a competition.<\/em><\/p>\n Greezle: I agree.\u00a0 I mean, look at the last attempt at laser power-beaming,\u00a0just a bunch of smoke…<\/em><\/p>\n Skronk: It took\u00a0852 plonkers (120,000 earth years)\u00a0for our government to develop this technology.\u00a0 I’m so happy that they\u00a0control\u00a0the technological development of our civilization.\u00a0 If we had left it up to our private sector, it would never have happened and we wouldn’t have been to colonize this quadrant of the galaxy.\u00a0 Hey, you want to hear a joke?<\/em><\/p>\n Greezle:\u00a0 Sure.<\/em><\/p>\n Skronk:\u00a0 What do you call humans who are too stupid to build a Space Elevator?<\/em><\/p>\n Greezle:\u00a0 I don’t know, what?<\/em><\/p>\n Skronk:\u00a0 Normal!!\u00a0 Hah hah hah!<\/em><\/p>\n Greezle: Hah hah hah!<\/em><\/p>\n Skronk:\u00a0 Commander Skippy is such a hoot…<\/em><\/p>\n Greezle: So here goes the test – get ready to laugh…<\/em><\/p>\n (USST\u00a0fires off its laser)\u00a0<\/p>\n Skronk and Greezle simultaneously:\u00a0 What the &%$#(&%* was that?<\/em><\/p>\n Skronk: \u00a0Greezle, did you see what I think I just saw?<\/em><\/p>\n Greezle: \u00a0I hate to say it, but it looks like the humans have just successfully demonstrated Power Beaming.\u00a0 Zoom in your equipment for a closer look…<\/em><\/p>\n Skronk:\u00a0 Doing so…\u00a0\u00a0 What the %$(&)^% is a “Saskatchewan”?<\/em><\/p>\n Greezle:\u00a0 I don’t know – maybe a candy bar?<\/em><\/p>\n Skronk: \u00a0Why would a candy bar company\u00a0be interested in Power-Beaming?<\/em><\/p>\n Greezle:\u00a0 It doesn’t matter.\u00a0 You know what this means, don’t you?<\/em><\/p>\n Skronk:\u00a0 Yes I do.\u00a0\u00a0We have to contact Commander Skippy immediately and let [him] know the bad news.<\/em><\/p>\n (Communications with the mother ship are established)<\/p>\n Skronk: Commander Skippy, I have the unfortunate task of informing you that the humans have just successfully demonstrated laser power-beaming.<\/em><\/p>\n Skippy:\u00a0 Are you sure?\u00a0 Do you know what this means?<\/em><\/p>\n Greezle:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 It means that the humans are one step closer to building a Space Elevator.<\/em><\/p>\n Skronk:\u00a0 That would be disastrous.\u00a0 If they ever developed one,\u00a0well, there goes the neighborhood.<\/em><\/p>\n Skippy:\u00a0 You’re right.\u00a0 Let’s just be thankful\u00a0they can’t\u00a0make tethers out of carbon nanotubes.\u00a0 If that happened, we’d really be in trouble…<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The transcript ends there.\u00a0 My extra-double-with-a-cherry-on-top-super-secret-agent from the extra-double-super-secret-agency is going to get me a transcript from their monitering of the Tether competion.\u00a0 I can hardly wait to hear what Skronk and Greezle will say about that!!<\/p>\n So stay tuned – I will keep my readers posted about the latest\u00a0communications from\u00a0Commander Skippy,\u00a0Skronk and Greezle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have an exclusive scoop for all of my readers… ALIENS HAVE BEEN SPOTTED AT THE 2007 SPACE ELEVATOR GAMES !!! 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<\/a>Don’t believe me?\u00a0\u00a0Take a look at this\u00a0thumbnail of\u00a0a picture provided to me by\u00a0Marc Boucher from the Space Elevator Reference<\/a>.\u00a0 If you click on the thumbnail you will, as always, see a full-size version of the picture.<\/p>\n