{"id":834,"date":"2007-10-22T08:40:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T13:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2015-08-19T19:30:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T01:30:24","slug":"2007-space-elevator-games-entry-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"2007 Space Elevator Games &#8211; (Entry 66)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video of USST&#8217;s attermpt to win the Prize money last night.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t succeed because of an issue they had with the climber, but it has to rank as one of the coolest videos ever.<\/p>\n<p>USST uses an Infrared laser, something normally invisible to the human eye.\u00a0 However, it shows up just fine on something equipped with infrared-seeing capabilities.\u00a0 Most any device that has a &#8220;night vision&#8221; option can see this and, fortunately, my camcorder has it too.\u00a0 So you can actually see the laser-beam itself &#8211; absolutely and monumentally cool.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of chunks within the video when I switch my camcorder back to &#8220;normal&#8221; vision, just to see what I could see &#8211; not much as you&#8217;ll find out when you watch this.\u00a0 And the climber itself is drastically overexposed with this &#8220;laser-vision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, this easily ranks as the cooliest clip this video rookie has ever shot.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"21OCT07 - USST tries for the Prize\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gepkhVOIgeM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>USST assures me that they have the problem taken care of &#8211; let&#8217;s hope they rock today.<\/p>\n<p>THIS is the future&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video of USST&#8217;s attermpt to win the Prize money last night.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t succeed because of an issue they had with the climber, but it has to rank as one of the coolest videos ever. USST uses an Infrared laser, something normally invisible to the human eye.\u00a0 However, it shows up just [&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-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}