Highest, fastest freefall attempt

[LazyLion]

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Dude, you got some big lines across your screen there or sumpin!

 

[biometrics]

Dude, you got some big lines across your screen there or sumpin!

CRT, old school ...

 

[LazyLion]

CRT, old school ...

I thought maybe those were the cross winds that got the whole thing canceled!

 

[biometrics]

I thought maybe those were the cross winds that got the whole thing canceled!

No he insisted on buying a new CRT recently, says he prefers SD!

:wtf::erm:

 

[Azbubu]

No he insisted on buying a new CRT recently, says he prefers SD!

:wtf::erm:

There are no CNN or Animal Planet HD channels. *shrug*

 

[Sinbad]

Mission has been called off for today.

Red bull gives you wwwiiiinnnnnnddddddd

 

[LazyLion]

Red bull gives you wwwiiiinnnnnnddddddd

Bwahahaha!

 

[Thugscub]

Boiling blood. Bwahaha stupid reporter should study his physics. What they going to do braai the poor feker at 40 000 m. When presume increases an air space gets smaller.
Uneducated plebs.

 

[Sinbad]

Boiling blood. Bwahaha stupid reporter should study his physics. What they going to do braai the poor feker at 40 000 m. When presume increases an air space gets smaller.
Uneducated plebs.

Condition is actually called decompression sickness or the bends, and it is a real risk. Issue is not as he descends, the problem is the differential between the pressure in his suit and the very low pressure at high altitude. Breach the suit at altitude, you have sudden decompression.

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

Boiling blood. Bwahaha stupid reporter should study his physics. What they going to do braai the poor feker at 40 000 m. When presume increases an air space gets smaller.
Uneducated plebs.

When what increases? Dude. Check your own spelling and facts before calling people uneducated plebs - afterall, they apparently know more than you. And they can spell, so they're up on you on that as well.

The atmosphere above 12 miles, or 63,000 feet (19,200 meters)—known as the Armstrong line (named for Harry George Armstrong, who founded the U.S. Air Force's Department of Space Medicine in 1947)—is so thin that, if not protected, human blood will literally boil. To prevent that, Baumgartner's airtight suit and the capsule around him will be continuously pressurized to create a personal atmosphere that isolates him from the void surrounding him.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121005-felix-baumgartner-skydive-science-sound-barrier-joseph-kittinger/

 

[Azbubu]

I see thugscub is making your blood boil

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

I see thugscub is making your blood boil

It's because I'm floating so high with anger.

 

[Azbubu]

It's because I'm floating so high with anger.

I pressured so.

 

[ponder]

Boiling blood. Bwahaha stupid reporter should study his physics. What they going to do braai the poor feker at 40 000 m. When presume increases an air space gets smaller.
Uneducated plebs.

Huh?

 

[Sinbad]

Huh?

I presume the pressure got to him

 

[Bizkit87]

Does anyone know why the mission was aborted?

 

[ShaunSA]

Does anyone know why the mission was aborted?

Winds were too high.

Any idea when the second attempt is due?

 

[Bizkit87]

Winds were too high.

Any idea when the second attempt is due?

holy crap, the wind was something lik 1.3 km/h , how much should it be?

 

[Picard]

If you saw the balloon being tossed about you'd think it was a gale force wind.

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

holy crap, the wind was something lik 1.3 km/h , how much should it be?

There was gusts of up to 40km/h iirc. They aborted because the balloon was being messed around and it is quite fragile.