Space Elevator Games Official Trailer

The 2009 Space Elevator Games at Dryden Flight Reseach Center. For more information, see http://www.SpaceElevatorGames.org

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Space
• Elevator
• Spaceward
• Dryden
• NASA

[krabunk]

Took me a while, but now I get it, and boy is it a fitting song! :-)

("Aquarela do Brasil", the mother of all elevator music...)

[Kamadeva01]

there will probably a no-flight zone around the elevator

[bitterjester]

Hehe - so interesting to see all the discussion of the music and the theories behind why it was used. When I made this video a couple years ago I used the theme from the movie Brazil because I just adore Terry Gilliam films and that one is my favourite. But lets not break the illusion here! Your reasons are far more awesome than mine!

[omega4chimp]

Lets build it with a gasoline pipeline connected to it so it can refuel gasoline space stations in space also.

[makemap]

This is what going to happen. When the elevator goes half way. it's going to snap. The tower collapse and the people fall from the sky. Or when it comes down the elevator is going to burn to smithereens.

[FlowCell]

If you ask me, I think the mother of them all is a tittle better deserved to "Little Spanish Flea".

/watch?v=BmFDPFKTOvk Listen and then you decided for yourself.

[FlowCell]

That's interesting, because Wall-E was about a disutopia.

And yes, here it is: /watch?v=UblUO0LjPUg The song starts at 0:49.

[beechamDesign]

Its the main theme of the movie "Brazil" (Terry Gilliams film about a future dystopia)

[FlowCell]

Isn't that the music from Wall-E?

[NewsTemp]

But what will the bored astronauts listen to (not even an array of fancy illuminated displays & buttons to watch, just up/pause & down, & no violent multi-G forces) ? There will have to be a new category of music, Space Elevator Music.

[AsgardCV]

So finally:-)