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Title: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Cire on October 14, 2012, 11:07:15 AM: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/14/felix-baumgartner-jump-skydive-space-record_n_1949342.html?1350228990
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Chico on October 14, 2012, 11:25:56 AM: I would like to know The Ed's odds of this guy making it without disintegrating in space.
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Cire on October 14, 2012, 11:46:32 AM: 70000 feet.
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: 06wildcat on October 14, 2012, 12:07:47 PM: http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/ (http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/)

The actual live feed...on 20 second delay so no Fox News shenanigans should happen if his suit rips and his blood boils.
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Cire on October 14, 2012, 12:09:02 PM: 90000 feet.
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Chico on October 14, 2012, 12:27:56 PM: I like how they don't realize that the mic is still on when he steps away. Lots of heavy breathing and throat clearing.
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Chico on October 14, 2012, 12:49:29 PM: Here we go! :ohno:
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Gooch on October 14, 2012, 12:56:31 PM: This bitch better jump soon. I got a bball game to go to.
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Saulbadguy on October 14, 2012, 12:57:02 PM: He's dead. RIP
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: kim carnes on October 14, 2012, 12:57:41 PM: Quote from: Saulbadguy on October 14, 2012, 12:57:02 PM
He's dead. RIP

lol
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: AbeFroman on October 14, 2012, 01:18:39 PM: He got to 729mph :sdeek:
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Cire on October 14, 2012, 01:23:09 PM: didn't break sound barrier or longest freefall record. bfd
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Chico on October 14, 2012, 01:29:32 PM: RIP
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Cartierfor3 on October 14, 2012, 01:31:49 PM: He's less brave than Collin Klein
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: kim carnes on October 14, 2012, 01:49:33 PM: Quote from: Cire on October 14, 2012, 01:23:09 PM
didn't break sound barrier or longest freefall record. bfd

he got the highest jump record though
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: ChiComCat on October 14, 2012, 02:28:00 PM: pretty insane watching him sitting then jumping from a space capsule
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Cire on October 14, 2012, 02:35:59 PM: Quote from: ChiCat on October 14, 2012, 02:28:00 PM
pretty insane watching him sitting then jumping from a space capsule

and see him spinning and then come into control.
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: steve dave on October 14, 2012, 04:23:48 PM: Quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
About that edge-of-space Jump: A coresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins 1 millimeter above its surface. I'm just saying.
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: OlatheWildcat on October 14, 2012, 06:17:26 PM: (https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F24.media.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_mbwarimsWZ1qzgeemo1_500.gif&hash=0252555dda543230ffc6ea4596d604ab5c8a2ba0)
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: kim carnes on October 14, 2012, 07:28:00 PM: Quote from: Cire on October 14, 2012, 01:23:09 PM
didn't break sound barrier or longest freefall record. bfd

according to a yahoo! article, he actually reached 833 mph which is 1.24 times the speed of sound.
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Cire on October 14, 2012, 07:35:38 PM: Quote from: kim carnes on October 14, 2012, 07:28:00 PM
Quote from: Cire on October 14, 2012, 01:23:09 PM
didn't break sound barrier or longest freefall record. bfd

according to a yahoo! article, he actually reached 833 mph which is 1.24 times the speed of sound.

Sweet.
Title: Re: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: Rams on October 14, 2012, 08:58:21 PM: Quote from: steve dave on October 14, 2012, 04:23:48 PM
Quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
About that edge-of-space Jump: A coresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins 1 millimeter above its surface. I'm just saying.

tyson is such a stud
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: AbeFroman on October 14, 2012, 09:01:57 PM: Quote from: steve dave on October 14, 2012, 04:23:48 PM
Quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
About that edge-of-space Jump: A coresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins 1 millimeter above its surface. I'm just saying.

You can only go so high before jumping out would just result in you floating there.
Title: Re: Live feed Space dive
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 14, 2012, 10:52:26 PM: I would have crapped myself several times. Eff that noise.