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Off Topic => General Discussion => Topic started by: Echnaton on October 09, 2012, 12:16:46 PM
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Anyone else watching the Stratos balloon mission? After a delay for weather, the broadcast is set restart at 11:00 am local time MDT or 17:00 GMT, a little less than an hour from now. If all goes well today, Felix Baumgartner will become the first human to pass the sound barrier in free fall. If it goes badly then...?
The last update said the balloon was being laid out. The actual launch time and when the dive is supposed to occur should be available during the broadcast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vkJ5ItzEq3M#! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vkJ5ItzEq3M#!)
ETA the schedule has launch at 11:15 MDT 55 minutes from this edit time.
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The program is now live. The balloon is upright and they are preparing for launch.
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It is off for today, maybe tomorrow.
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Going a little offtopic, is anyone else a little perturbed by the use of the sponsors name in front of the event, especially given the nature of the item being sponsored? I may be a bit old school, but I really dislike the product and the way it is marketed to a very gullible, naive and eager-to-be-cool audience.
As for the event, it's fascinating and I'm very keen to see what transpires.
Just not so keen on helping to promote caffeine/stimulant loaded drinks.
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An extreme sports event is promoting the energy drink maker that sponsored it. I really don't see what's unusual or disturbing about this.
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I am with you, ChrLz. I find it off putting that almost everything in the world is a reason to sell me something. I really hate being sold to and it always devalues the experience for me. I wonder what the Apollo program would look like today. Instead of Armstrong saying, "Houston, Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed," would he have started by saying, "Red Bull Control...?"
But if we want to have people do this sort of exotic stuff somebody has to pay for it. The good sometimes comes with the bad.
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A guy's doing a stunt to set some records. This is hardly Apollo. Nor is it new for people doing such things to offer advertisement rights in return for funding.
I think it's nice to see a company finding ways to increase brand awareness without annoying ads. Even if by all accounts the stuff they sell tastes awful...
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To me, the whole thing is an annoying ad but that doesn't stop me from watching it for the adventure. I can take my money elsewhere.
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They're trying again today. It's a perfect date to do it too... exactly 65 years after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the X-1.
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http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/
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How's this for a theory? Felix Baumgartner is going to launch in his balloon today from Roswell, New Mexico (yeah, that Roswell). What if he enters some kind of time portal that sends him back to the same location in the summer of 1947 where he and his balloon/capsule crash? The Air Force finds him in his spacesuit inside a pressurized vehicle of unknown origins, made from materials they can't identify. OMG! Felix Baumgartner is the Roswell alien! ;)
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(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/199/693/disgusted-mother-of-god.png?1321272571)
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How's this for a theory? Felix Baumgartner is going to launch in his balloon today from Roswell, New Mexico (yeah, that Roswell). What if he enters some kind of time portal that sends him back to the same location in the summer of 1947 where he and his balloon/capsule crash? The Air Force finds him in his spacesuit inside a pressurized vehicle of unknown origins, made from materials they can't identify. OMG! Felix Baumgartner is the Roswell alien! ;)
And..... attached to...... A BALLOON!!!!
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I'm disappointed that my theory was wrong... unless of course the time portal was also an inter-dimensional bridge and it was another Felix Baumgartner that crashed in Roswell in 1947.
It was nice to see "our" Felix land on his feet though. :)
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Baumgartener made mach 1.24. An amazing feet.
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Baumgartener made mach 1.24. An amazing feet.
128,000 amazing feet. One amazing feat.
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Interesting that they chose Roswell for this experimental balloon flight.
Apparently, some of the key points in its favour were the general calm meteorological conditions - long periods of fine weather & predictable winds, plus the wide-open terrain and the fact that it is about 5000 ft above sea level.
In fact, its probably the same key points that convinced the organisers of a certain other experimental balloon project to choose that location 65 years ago.
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At least one Youtube hoaxer (Awe130) was eagerly awaiting pictures to see if stars could be seen in the daytime from that altitude. I tried to tell him of the hundreds of amateur balloon flights with cameras to that same altitude that showed black sky with no stars, but to no avail...
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Baumgartener made mach 1.24. An amazing feet.
128,000 amazing feet. One amazing feat.
I knew something smelled about that post when I made it.
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Here's some video from a camera mounted on Felix Baugartner's chest (you might not want to watch it if you get dizzy easily).