Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GScholz on October 09, 2012, 09:29:36 AM
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Anyone else following this mach 1+ skydive attempt?
http://www.redbullstratos.com/
(http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/546403_482926768395006_386923143_n.jpg)
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Currently on hold due to weather......
Guy is either crazy, or has nuts the size of beachballs.
Im thinking both :aok
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Countdown resumes.... :rock
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Damn...
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Aborted.....double damn :bhead
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Do you think its possible for him to go supersonic? Hes up there where the air is thin but a terminal velocity of 180 or so at lower alts has me skeptical he;ll break the sound barrier, and with a bulky(ish) suit?
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If i was one of his buddies, about a week prior I'd start calling him "Thud"
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Waste of time and money, i guess some people would do anything for 15 minutes of lame(fame)
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Do you think its possible for him to go supersonic? Hes up there where the air is thin but a terminal velocity of 180 or so at lower alts has me skeptical he;ll break the sound barrier, and with a bulky(ish) suit?
Kittinger came dame close.
Felix is dropping from a higher alt.
If he ever gets off the ground...
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i'll be watching
(redbull have taken over the world)
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hey VonMessa, psssst...he's already "off the ground", technically speaking that is. :D
if redbull gives you wings...why is he trying to fall as fast as he can?
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hey VonMessa, psssst...he's already "off the ground", technically speaking that is. :D
if redbull gives you wings...why is he trying to fall as fast as he can?
Well, I meant because they aborted the mission, today.
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Waste of time and money, i guess some people would do anything for 15 minutes of lame(fame)
You mean awesome use of a private companys revenue to incite publicity and raise sales. Red Bull does this all the time, air races, rally drivers, skydivers, wingsuits, Flug Tag.
I give them a big :aok and a :rock
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My two boys are keeping track of this in their respective classes. One is in third grade and the other is a sophomore in high school. The high school class is actually learning about the science of what it takes to engineer and do this type of jump while the third graders are just learning that it can be done. I think this is awesome and for kids who are into science and mathematics this is a great time...kinda like when many of us can say we watched the first space shuttle launch or the launch of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. There aren't many publicly witnessed major science experiments but this is one and it will be awesome if he can do it.
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Waste of time and money, i guess some people would do anything for 15 minutes of lame(fame)
Except for that whole part where these guys are working closely with NASA through all of this to help develope more advanced suits for astronauts......
There's a lot of science and R&D behind this, not just some guy trying to get in the record books....
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to each his own
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(redbull have taken over the world)
:x :x :x :x :x :x
if redbull gives you wings...why is he trying to fall as fast as he can?
We're just that awesome, we don't use our wings.
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After he jumps the RedBull advertisers will be changing thier slogan to;
RedBull give you wings and a harp.
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Except for that whole part where these guys are working closely with NASA through all of this to help develope more advanced suits for astronauts......
There's a lot of science and R&D behind this, not just some guy trying to get in the record books....
They can create a better suit in the lab, NASA was paid to allow this stunt, and I highly dout NASA has any procedures that require astronauts to jump off the space ship to achieve any goals. What can you gain from this?? Other then massive media coverage??
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They can create a better suit in the lab, NASA was paid to allow this stunt, and I highly dout NASA has any procedures that require astronauts to jump off the space ship to achieve any goals. What can you gain from this?? Other then massive media coverage??
Why u has to be negative nancy today? This is awesome!!!
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They can create a better suit in the lab, NASA was paid to allow this stunt, and I highly dout NASA has any procedures that require astronauts to jump off the space ship to achieve any goals. What can you gain from this?? Other then massive media coverage??
What NASA? :noid
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Why u has to be negative nancy today? This is awesome!!!
I just wants to argue :D