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Watch live: Felix Baumgartner’s jump from space in skydiving record attempt
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9584804/Watch-live-Felix-Baumgartners-jump-from-space-in-sk ^
Posted on 10/14/2012 8:59:13 AM PDT by unixfox
Watch live: Felix Baumgartner's jump from space in skydiving record attempt.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: alteredtitle; felixbaumgartner; jump; redbull; sourcetitlenoturl; spacediving; spacejump; stratosphere
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To: CharlotteVRWC
I dont’t think its scheduled but judging from his current altitude and rate of ascent it will be another hour.
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posted on
10/14/2012 9:41:20 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: unixfox
Oh. My. God.
Who was that Italian guy? Tower of Pisa? Discovered the Moon or sumpin?
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posted on
10/14/2012 9:45:06 AM PDT
by
procrustes
(You make Free Republic look bad!)
To: unixfox
What time will it all happen???
To: driftdiver
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posted on
10/14/2012 9:59:43 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
He’s at 70k now, going to 120,000.
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:09:00 AM PDT
by
9422WMR
(Life is not fair, just deal with it)
To: 9422WMR
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:10:46 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Uncle Chip
Should be jumping in about 20 minutes.
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:12:58 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: hoagy62
The balloon is starting to fill out pretty good now.
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:17:30 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Uncle Chip
Should be jumping in less than 15 minutes. Ariound 12:30 CDT.
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:19:20 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
To: cripplecreek
The space shuttle has heat shields. How does he expect to survive.
To: unixfox
He would have to weigh more than our planet to increase his gravitational attraction/velocity.
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:22:32 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
To: Orange1998
He’s not going to be reaching 22 times the speed of sound like the space shuttle.
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:23:44 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: rawcatslyentist
Physics has never been my strong point.
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:26:10 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
To: unixfox
I’m watching it now — the video is so clear.
To: unixfox
Good luck to this guy,,,
That would be one big splat...
To: DaiHuy
That’s from within the atmosphere. He did 500+ MPH from a 90,000’ jump.
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:31:11 AM PDT
by
pingman
("Human history seems logical in afterthought, but a mystery in forethought." (Strauss & Howe))
To: cripplecreek
Or speed of light according to CNN.
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:31:24 AM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Orange1998
Thing is...the Shuttle was coming in from 100 MILES in altitude at 18,000 miles an hour. Going that fast, the atmosphere going by at mach 20 or so would heat the outside to 2-3000 degrees.
Felix only plans to go from 120,000 feet to get to about about Mach 1.1. That isn’t going anywhere NEAR fast enough to cause heating of that sort. His biggest concern will be atmospheric pressure at the speed of sound, what aerospace engineers refer to as “Max Q”. I think they’ll be fine, but that remains to be seen.
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:32:10 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: Uncle Chip; unixfox
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:33:00 AM PDT
by
WVKayaker
(I'm more than happy to be Obama's "enemy of the week" - Sarah Palin)
To: Straight Vermonter
LOL Gotta love the media geniuses.
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posted on
10/14/2012 10:35:16 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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