Posted on 10/14/2012 11:50:11 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
YouTube.com has gone down thanks to Felix Baumgartner's historic jump from space.
YouTube hosted Mr. Baumgartner's jump live and was sponsored by Red Bull. At its height, there were more than 7.5 Million people watching the same video at once.
When Mr. Baumgartner was about to touch down after a successful jump, the site began to experience problems. A few minutes after, the entire website is having a server error, leading people to receive this message when they try to go to YouTube:
Members of Twitter quickly took to the site to comment on YouTube's crash.
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Obama can go up in that outfit and at 130,000 feet JUMP OUT ~ then he'll know what 'He did do that' means!
Short of that Obamugabe doesn't have a hair.
It hit over 8 million around the time of his jump. very cool...
btw, I was watching with my son. I guess the actual number of pairs of eyeballs on the viewing was much larger than 8 million.
This is the photo from his first jump that captured my imagination. The view is looking east, and the distinctive white patches are the “South Dunes” of the Mescalero Dunes area, with the Mescalero Escarpment just beyond to the east. The escarpment was mentioned on the broadcast I watched on the Discovery Channel.
These same dunes showed up directly beneath the capsule in Sunday’s jump, and you can see them in the overhead shot of his initial plunge. Of course, this shows that he had drifted further to the east this time, and concern about this was discussed during the coverage.
Since they were right below him, I wonder how far away he landed from them.
Awesome new first-person view of Felix Baumgartners space jump
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