LaserMotive’s laser-beaming powered robot climber ascends the 3,000-foot cable suspended from a helicopter at the Space Elevator Games. The real thing, big enough to carry passengers in their own cabins, might take a day or two to get into space. But with no gravity stresses to speak of.
UPDATE: The games are over and LaserMotive won $900K. The big prize, however, is still out there.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
A day or even two is a minuscule payment for the pleasure not to have to ride a pile of high explosives.
That’s the best advertisement they could have. They could even make a slogan out of it.
That’s the best advertisement they could have. They could even make a slogan out of it.