Guy jumping from 120000 feet (Red Bull Stratos) : Othor Games

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 7:49 am

I do wish him to succeed, but I fear air traveling companies adapting the method to drop their passengers at destination and save loads of money on fuel.

Well if it works, then what is there to get upset about?

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:38 am

OMG! Live possible death? Jumping from space!?

Count me in! I shall bring the popcorn!

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 5:11 pm

Well if it works, then what is there to get upset about?

It was just jest, in my absurdly wonky future scenario, airplane passengers with vertigo would have quite a bad time when "landing" that way.

Air hostess: "Remember to stay calm and not make any sudden moves"
Passenger: "There is no way this has been made legaAAAAHHHH!!!"

A bit more on topic, didn't something similar to this appear in the latest Star Trek movie, when they drop a commando from orbit onto the planetary driller?

Edit: once again, wikipedia has relevant info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_diving

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:31 am

But I'm confused, they said it'd happen Monday. Wouldn't 21 hours to go put it into Tuesday if you live on the east coast. This svcks I wanted to see it today.

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:50 am

I thought this thread would allow me to express my hatred for Mondays and my 9am lectures. Instead it seems to be about something far more exciting.

I'm half tempted to watch this, although through my fingertips just in case anything horrible happens!

When exactly is it?

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:33 pm

I thought this thread would allow me to express my hatred for Mondays and my 9am lectures. Instead it seems to be about something far more exciting.

I'm half tempted to watch this, although through my fingertips just in case anything horrible happens!

When exactly is it?

I wish I was asleep...
Watching a video of a guy falling for 20~30 minutes sounds boring.

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 7:55 pm

I wish I was asleep...
Watching a video of a guy falling for 20~30 minutes sounds boring.

More like 5 minutes, actually. Then either he opens his chute, or it deploys automatically because he's unconscious or dead.

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:53 am

More like 5 minutes, actually. Then either he opens his chute, or it deploys automatically because he's unconscious or dead.

Excelsior.

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:30 pm

Excelsior.

Yeah, man going faster than the speed of sound in an unpowered freefall. Hohum indeed. :rolleyes:

I thought this thread would allow me to express my hatred for Mondays and my 9am lectures. Instead it seems to be about something far more exciting.

I'm half tempted to watch this, although through my fingertips just in case anything horrible happens!

When exactly is it?

I'm guessing they were waiting for optimal weather conditions and pushed the launch window back, but as of now their http://www.redbullstratos.com/ is at 19h34m.

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:21 pm

Yeah, man going faster than the speed of sound in an unpowered freefall. Hohum indeed. :rolleyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:14 pm

Food is going to be going into my stomach faster than the speed of sound. It's thanksgiving. To the battlements men and women of Canada. For today we dine until we're in hell.

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:04 pm

If I'm not mistaken, breaking the sound barrier through free falling would probbably be faster and more damaging than rocket-sledding.
If he's in free fall, there is air pressure, nothing to grab a hold to, no way to cover yourself from the wind, and lots of other things.

Detached retinas doesn't sound too good either.

He's going to be wearing a pressurized suit, so the only real risk is a malfunction of his equipment.

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:24 am

Food is going to be going into my stomach faster than the speed of sound. It's thanksgiving. To the battlements men and women of Canada. For today we dine until we're in hell.

Are you from the future? Because in my world it's not even Halloween yet.

As it stands, 6am mst is 8am est I'm going to miss it anyway. I won't even be at my job to watch it. I'm so disappointed now.

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:24 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior

Oh right.

About time those records were smashed then, eh? Apparently Kittinger has also been coaching this guy.

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:16 am

Are you from the future? Because in my world it's not even Halloween yet.

As it stands, 6am mst is 8am est I'm going to miss it anyway. I won't even be at my job to watch it. I'm so disappointed now.

Our Thanksgiving is on Oct 8th.

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:03 pm

He's going to be wearing a pressurized suit, so the only real risk is a malfunction of his equipment.

Oh, okay.

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:11 pm

My buddy told me that the jump is going to be carried live on Discovery channel tommorow from 9am-1pm EST.

Everything they had in the papers that the jump was today,Monday,guess it got pushed back to Tuesday.

The articles say that NASA is going to be an observer as they are interested in being able to escape spacecraft.

But NASA is so risk adverse that they make your dad look like Evel Knevel,David Blaine,or Harry Houdini.

Then again,in fairness,every mistake(or mishap) they make is a $1oo million one and also sets human exploration of space back 10 years due to people not realizing just how dangerous even a routine launch is.

High risk high reward.

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:27 am

Well I'll be staying up late to watch it. They're putting it on tv live (with a slight delay I imagine) in Australia at about 11.00 PM

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 11:08 pm

http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/05/leap-of-faith-felix-baumgartners-historic-jump-from-the-edge/

I look forward to seeing whether he survives or not, breaking the sound barrier with your body is pretty awesome. Though I won't be waking up to see it, I have another midterm tomorrow so need my precious sleep.

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:47 am

Sweet, this happens slightly after midnight for me so I'll be able to watch it live.

/excited

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 5:53 pm

I'm totally going to livestream the heck out of this. I hope they post a time so I can watch it from beginning to end as it happens! I'm sure if he dies they'll pull it from the internet, would they?

I've been reading the whole website closely. Sounds like he has two manual parachutes and a high-tech electronic one, so if he loses conciousness for whatever reason and can't operate the parachute himself, the electronic one will deploy, so he'll land safely.

Also I read this from this bit- http://www.redbullstratos.com/the-mission/mission-timeline/

Felix pays special attention to step off from the capsule. Due to the lack of atmosphere below, nothing will slow him down. A stable body position is key to preventing an uncontrollable spin and possible loss of consciousness.

So if he starts spinning, all sorts of nasty things will happen.

I find the whole thing fascinating. I'll be keeping my eye on the countdown timer for sure.

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 1:11 am

Not long now. 73 minutes to go! anyone else watching?

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 7:45 pm

Not long now. 73 minutes to go! anyone else watching?

This should be the link:

http://www.redbullstratos.com/live

Wow. This is going to be cool. [edit] 60 min and counting...

» Tue Oct 09, 2012 5:02 pm

This should be the link:

http://www.redbullstratos.com/live

Wow. This is going to be cool. [edit] 60 min and counting...

I thought I'd missed this for sure, but the site says there's still 37 minutes to go for this. Looks like I'll be able to check out this live after all!

» Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:18 am

I'm going to miss it. I'm so pissed. I'm not going to be at work yet and I checked Discovery's schedule and it's not showing anything so I couldn't set the DVR.