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MSNBC Chyron Fail: Felix Baumgartner Traveled ‘Faster Than The Speed Of Light’
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| October 15th, 2012
| Andrew Kirell
Posted on 10/15/2012 10:12:15 PM PDT by Maurice Tift
MSNBC might want to put some of its graphics producers through basic physics classes again.
During a brief report on Sundays epic Felix Baumgartner sky-dive from the stratosphere, during which the native Austrian broke the sound barrier, the cable network mistakenly labeled his feat as having traveled faster than the speed of light.
Despite the mistaken chyron, host Andrea Mitchell correctly reported that Fearless Felix was the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound without being inside a craft of some sort.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baumgartner; chyron; felix; msnbc; nbcnewa
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FTL is possible!! (if you watch MSNBC)
To: Maurice Tift
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:20:28 PM PDT
by
Brandonmark
(2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
To: Maurice Tift
Impossible, only a Plymouth Satellite can travel faster than the speed of light.
To: Maurice Tift
MSNBC says Get Stuffed to Albert Einstein.
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:21:30 PM PDT
by
Lou Budvis
(I'm voting AB0/RYAN)
To: Maurice Tift
Faster than frickin’ laser beams? Attached to sharks’ heads?
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:23:16 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(To bid on this tagline space: www.jeffchandlerstaglinespace.com)
To: Maurice Tift
“He was traveling faster than the black hole at the center of the universe!”
To: <1/1,000,000th%
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:26:55 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Maurice Tift
No wonder I couldn’t see him.
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:28:49 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(I don't like RINOs, but I love my country more than I hate Romney...Muslim marxist, get out!)
To: Jeff Chandler
Steven Wright once said that he almost went back in time by putting 'instant' coffee into a microwave oven, but now it appears that you can possibly do the same thing by jumping out of a balloon. Anyway - I hope Felix Baumgartner saves the footage from MSNBC for his collection. Making MSNBC think you traveled faster than light - priceless!!
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:30:17 PM PDT
by
Maurice Tift
(You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
To: Maurice Tift
Not unprecedented. CNN Presents the "faster than light" space shuttle.
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:34:39 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(The pundits have forgotten the 2010 elections.)
To: Maurice Tift
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:35:57 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(The pundits have forgotten the 2010 elections.)
To: Maurice Tift
Humans are as fast as lightning under certain conditions, such as kung-fu fighting.
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:36:07 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Jet Jaguar
If you want to have someone get the simplest thing wrong, tell it to a journalist.
To: Maurice Tift
Reminds me of this classic:
ALI G: When you went to the moon, was the moon people friendly, or did they scare you? BUZZ ALDRIN: We had no hopes of finding any life there whatsoever.
ALI G: When is man going to walk on the sun?
BUZZ ALDRIN: It's much too hot on the sun; we can never go there.
ALI G: We could go in the winter, when it's colder.
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:46:01 PM PDT
by
Drew68
(I WILL vote to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!)
To: Maurice Tift
Show me a universe where a man falls from a balloon faster than the speed of light, and I’ll show you steel that can’t be melted by fire.
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:47:25 PM PDT
by
C210N
("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
To: Jet Jaguar
Ha...that's nothing....
Obama has a time machine....problem is it only works in 2 dimensions....
but good enough to extract a copy of his birth certificate from the past....
See ....here it comes out of hyperspace from a slot in the machine,,,
.
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:52:58 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
To: Maurice Tift; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
Well, falling as far as he did, he might have reached the speed of light, who knows. It could be. We have to keep our minds open to the possibility.
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:55:39 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong!)
To: Maurice Tift
Proving, once again, the Lorentz Invariance of journalistic stupidity in all frames of reference.
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posted on
10/15/2012 10:58:04 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(Maybe he was a neutrino for most of the jump.)
To: poindexters brother
If you want to have someone get the simplest thing wrong, tell it to a journalist.My mom used to tell the story of a scientist who was being interviewed about the possibility of space travel, back in the 1950's, and was trying to explain about traveling through the vacuum of space. When he was asked by a reporter, " Just what does this vacuum consist of?" he replied, "Reporters' brains."
I have always felt, though, that it was not a stupid question.
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posted on
10/15/2012 11:00:01 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: Maurice Tift
I wonder if Baumgartner met with himself before the jump.
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