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Author Topic: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)  (Read 2898 times)

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Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« on: October 09, 2012, 12:04:07 pm »
Splitting this out from the WTF thread:

http://www.redbullstratos.com/

An Austrian BASE jumper and all-around daredevil named Felix Baumgartner is going to ride a gigantic balloon up to 23 miles altitude, inside a pressurized capsule while wearing a modified space suit. Then he's going to open the door, look out at the black sky and the Earth curving beneath him, and jump.

And then, if everything goes according to plan, he'll freefall for most of that 23 miles, breaking the sound barrier, then pull the chute and glide to a conventional parachute landing. Except for the "from SPAAAAAACE" part.

Best part? It's all going to be streamed live.


EDIT: New launch date scheduled for 10/14.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2012, 11:13:26 am by RedKing »
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2012, 12:07:07 pm »
So there's a livestream of some people walking around the capsule. It's really quite exciting.
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2012, 12:10:09 pm »
Oh, this is going to be fun to watch.
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2012, 12:11:41 pm »
Here's hoping weather cooperates. Because the balloon material is so thin, they need windspeed to be 3mph or less, from ground level all the way up to 800 feet (where the top of the balloon is when inflated...like I said, crazy-ass big balloon).
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2012, 12:12:20 pm »
"That's no balloon..."
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2012, 12:13:57 pm »
That's a fully operational space station?

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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2012, 12:17:05 pm »
This looks pretty damn cool.
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2012, 12:17:47 pm »
According to the Twitter feed, Felix is in the capsule and they've started inflating the balloon.
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« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2012, 12:20:14 pm »
Damn, probably going to be in classes during the jump.
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2012, 12:21:22 pm »
Talk teacher(s) into showing the jump?
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2012, 12:24:34 pm »
Hah. "Professor, can I interrupt your ego-trip so we can watch a guy jump from SPEHSS?"

Yeah, that will work real well.  :P
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« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2012, 12:29:39 pm »
Quote from: Flying Dice on October 09, 2012, 12:24:34 pm
Hah. "Professor, can I interrupt your ego-trip so we can watch a guy jump from SPEHSS?"

Yeah, that will work real well.  :P
23 miles is not space. It's rather high, but space only starts around 100 (or was it 70) Kilometers.
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« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2012, 12:30:45 pm »
Would "approximately SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE" work?
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2012, 12:32:18 pm »
Launch in less than 5 minutes!
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2012, 12:33:59 pm »
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Quote from: Flying Dice on October 09, 2012, 12:24:34 pm
Hah. "Professor, can I interrupt your ego-trip so we can watch a guy jump from SPEHSS?"

Yeah, that will work real well.  :P
23 miles is not space. It's rather high, but space only starts around 100 (or was it 70) Kilometers.
It's close enough to space to qualify as space for most people.
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