Welcome to this edition of Weekend Walkabout. In this post, we visit India Thailand to see a ‘possible competitor’ to a space elevator, then journey to Japan to see the latest with our favorite anime series, Gundam, and then wind up in what can only be described as “Fantasy Land”. There’s also a programming note concerning this blog and Facebook. And without further ado…
A new “lift system” has been demonstrated in India Thailand and it is just awesome. Frankly, I don’t ever think it will be a competitor to the space elevator but it ranks pretty high on my cool-o-meter. Make sure you watch it to the end…
Next up is a stop in Japan. If you’re a fan of Anime, you almost certainly know about Gundam. This started as a TV series in Japan in 1979 and now has grown to be much more than that. According to Chris Beveridge, who knows much more about these things than I do, something very cool has happened:
While fans of Gundam Build Fighters Try have been treated to a proper simulcast for that series and its previous incarnation, fans of Gundam Reconguista in G haven’t made out as good. But that’s now managed to change some as the series has begun streaming on the official Gundam Info YouTube channel with English subtitles (as well as streams in other territories/subtitles). The addition comes as about twenty-two episodes have been broadcast in Japan since it’s debut last year.
Chris tells us that the plot concept of Gundam Reconguista in G is:
The Universal Century, an era of historic migration into space and space wars has ended, and some time has passed. Now, mankind believes that their pursuits and prosperity will continue on peacefully into the new era, the Regild Century (R.C.)
R.C. 1014. The Capital Tower is a space elevator which towers over the land connecting Earth to space. The tower’s purpose is to bring down Photon Batteries from space that power the Earth, and as such is perceived as a holy place…