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Author Topic: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)  (Read 2886 times)

10ebbor10

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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #15 on: October 09, 2012, 12:35:04 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.
It's only 1/3 of the way to the Karman line, which isn't pure space too. So no, way to low to qualify as space.

Really, he barely leaves the Troposfere. It's only 6 km above the highest plane flight. (Rocketplanes don't count)
« Last Edit: October 09, 2012, 12:39:40 pm by 10ebbor10 »
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2012, 12:36:10 pm »

Okay, okay....still closer to space than any of us schleps is ever going to get.  ::)
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2012, 12:37:01 pm »

Speak for yourself. I'm seeing space if its the last thing any of you ever do.

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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2012, 12:38:48 pm »

"If you want to perform experiments in a near-space environment, then all you have to do is send up a research balloon to an altitude of around 25 miles above Earth. At this altitude, the balloon is above 99.95 percent of the atmosphere, and is virtually in a vacuum."

-a website I just found

But yeah, space is about twice that, for normal purposes. But this is pretty much effectively "space environs", it just means they can take a balloon instead of a rocket.
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #19 on: October 09, 2012, 12:43:01 pm »

Inflating balloon looks kinda' like giant sky jellyfish.

Somewhat terrifying.
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #20 on: October 09, 2012, 12:43:01 pm »

Sounds like they just called it off  :(
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #21 on: October 09, 2012, 12:43:17 pm »

"If you want to perform experiments in a near-space environment, then all you have to do is send up a research balloon to an altitude of around 25 miles above Earth. At this altitude, the balloon is above 99.95 percent of the atmosphere, and is virtually in a vacuum."

-a website I just found

But yeah, space is about twice that, for normal purposes. But this is pretty much effectively "space environs", it just means they can take a balloon instead of a rocket.
Space is defined by the Karman line placed at 100 km. Though 90% of the athmosphere is below 16 km, so that info might very well be correct.

Also, balloons got to 50 km, though those were unmanned.

Third, someone let that guy take a paper plane. Allows us to break another altitude record.
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #22 on: October 09, 2012, 12:44:04 pm »

On the other hand, is which band of stuff he'd be jumping from really relevant?

Anyway, aborted for today. Damn.
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #23 on: October 09, 2012, 12:46:39 pm »

On the other hand, is which band of stuff he'd be jumping from really relevant?

Anyway, aborted for today. Damn.
Jumping from space would be awesome. And deadly.

Actually, it'll need to be classified as a non capsule reentry.
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« Reply #24 on: October 09, 2012, 12:55:52 pm »

I'm pretty sure orbital insertion is eventually the goal, though. Coming home from the space station? Simply step out the airlock! ;)

And okay, it's a bit more than twice (63 instead of 50 miles).
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« Reply #25 on: October 09, 2012, 12:58:53 pm »

Well, damn. Oh well, keeping the stream running was overheating my laptop anyways. Think I saw somewhere that they'd try again on Thursday.
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #26 on: October 09, 2012, 01:09:32 pm »

I'm pretty sure orbital insertion is eventually the goal, though. Coming home from the space station? Simply step out the airlock! ;)

And okay, it's a bit more than twice (63 instead of 50 miles).
Problem with that is the nonlinear progression of athmosphere density. For the first 120 kilometers(Taking from the ISS) everything is a breeze. Then you meet the other 90% of the athmosphere, which will be interesting. (And hot)
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Re: Red Bull Stratos! (Or, Skydiving From SPAAAAAACE!)
« Reply #27 on: October 09, 2012, 01:11:46 pm »

Next effort = Thursday.

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« Reply #28 on: October 09, 2012, 01:48:10 pm »

Posting to follow. All their feeds still say it was/is happening, but I haven't seen any streamage. Even so, at least the start/stop approach helps build up the hype, right? All in all, a victory for science.
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« Reply #29 on: October 09, 2012, 01:57:18 pm »

Well, damn. Oh well, keeping the stream running was overheating my laptop anyways. Think I saw somewhere that they'd try again on Thursday.

Amusingly enough, they missed their weather window because of an overheating transmitter in the capsule.
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