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Felix Baumgartner will attempt to jump from stratosphere today
Red Bull ^
| Oct 14, 2012
| Vince Ferrer
Posted on 10/14/2012 7:48:40 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
There will be a second attempt today for Felix to jump from a ballon at 120,000 feet and parachute, breaking the record for high altitude jumps. There should be a live feed on the website.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; baumgartner; felixbaumgartner; isthereabook; isvegasinvolved; skydiving; soundbarrier; spacediving; spacejump; whataretheodds; wherecanibet
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To: Southern Magnolia
LAUNCH! Now Felix goes up the long ladder......
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posted on
10/14/2012 8:34:44 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
10/14/2012 8:38:45 AM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
To: don-o
Beautiful weather here in NM today, air is dead still.
To: Tijeras_Slim
Do they have any idea where he will land?
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posted on
10/14/2012 8:45:01 AM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
To: neverdem; Eye of Unk
Meanwhile on the Discovery Channel they are showing Mythbusters while waiting to clear the weather hold, periodically they give a status update but the event should be broadcasted on that channel from what they say. On live now on Discovery, according to my daughter.
Getting up towards 15,000 ft.
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posted on
10/14/2012 8:45:36 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: don-o
Near Roswell. There’s a whole lot of open space down there.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
You Tube - link in post 2 - has a good stream
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posted on
10/14/2012 8:47:33 AM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
To: don-o
That’s actually a part of a contest on the Red Bull Stratos website. You can make a guess and if you’re the closest, you’ll get a fairly nice watch.
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posted on
10/14/2012 8:49:55 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Passing through 22k. Control says two hours and they should be at target height...
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posted on
10/14/2012 8:53:16 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(I will not comply.)
To: hoagy62
He’s not entering the atmosphere at 18,000 mph.
To: don-o
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posted on
10/14/2012 8:55:36 AM PDT
by
Delta Dawn
(The whole truth.)
To: Vince Ferrer
Will it happen!!!! We shall see and a bump to the top
A few minutes ago, CapCom ran thru a verbal checklist with Felix...
Didn’t Felix sound really slow and tired? He complained that the capsule was too hot for him, about 55DegF inside. He has his glove heaters turned on to MAX heat.
Hope there are no issues with Oxygen in his helmet!
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posted on
10/14/2012 9:02:14 AM PDT
by
GRRRRR
(He'll NEVER be my President, FUBO! Treason is the Reason! Impeach the Kenyan)
To: Vince Ferrer
It looks beautiful. A pearly-white, almost translucent ballon against a washed blue sky.
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posted on
10/14/2012 9:03:24 AM PDT
by
chimera
To: al baby
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posted on
10/14/2012 9:12:09 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: Vince Ferrer
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posted on
10/14/2012 9:19:37 AM PDT
by
GonzoII
(Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea...Quare tristis es anima mea?)
To: GonzoII
56,000 feet and still going up.
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posted on
10/14/2012 9:26:57 AM PDT
by
PeteB570
( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
To: Vince Ferrer; don-o
Good Luck Felix!
Thanks to don-o for helping me find this more recent thread.
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posted on
10/14/2012 9:27:21 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: Vince Ferrer
56,000 feet
Outside Temperature
-65.7°C / -88.1°F
To: Vince Ferrer
All this tells me is that Red Bull is way overpriced
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posted on
10/14/2012 9:27:24 AM PDT
by
al baby
(“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
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