OK newbie, lets get this straight, we freestyle here and that is cool but keep your POLITICS in the FYI area.Originally Posted by LegandofthePack15
Thanks!
OK newbie, lets get this straight, we freestyle here and that is cool but keep your POLITICS in the FYI area.
Thanks!
And don't be such a fucking douchebag.
Succinct
Wow, the three of you agreeing.....LegandofthePack is a miracle worker.
If you didn't see it, here is their website info on the suit:
http://www.redbullstratos.com/techno...it-and-helmet/
"Never, never ever support a punk like mraynrand. Rather be as I am and feel real sympathy for his sickness." - Woodbuck
"- Above about 62,000 feet, the liquid in Felix's tissues could turn to gas and expand dangerously, a condition called ebullism, but the suit will maintain pressure around his body to prevent such expansion"
I wonder if this is painful. Even with the suit it sounds like it is.
Fucking badass!! Even the clouds look far away.
Whats the big deal?! Natty Light has been there/done that/bought the T-Shirt!!
If Natty Light can do it, anybody can do it.
The 80s were great.Wow, the three of you agreeing.....LegandofthePack is a miracle worker.
C.H.U.D.
No school like old school.
The old-timers were hard like iron.
Read some of the arctic/antarctic exploration accounts if you ever want to feel really light.
Shut the fuck up.
Looks like Slim Pickens without his ride.
HOFer
LOL, thats good shit
Did Felix Baumgartner create a sonic boom? And if so, would he have heard it as he fell at 840 mph?
HOFer
i don't think there was a sonic boom because of how thin the air was up where he was going so fast
heres a picture of a jet going throught the barrier
the boom comes from an object pushing through the mass amount of built up air in front of in.
so if the air is very thin, theres no big build up of air to go through, so no sonic boom, at least thats the way i understand it
but of course i'm usually full of shit
Credit 'Red Bull' for sponsoring the event. Big bang for the buck in terms of future sales revenue, I'm sure.
The materials of the balloon ("Material: It is constructed of strips of high-performance polyethylene (plastic) film that is only 0.0008 inches thick. In total, these strips would cover 40 acres if they were laid flat. Polyester-fibre reinforced load tapes are incorporated to do the weight bearing.") and the suit ("The suit is designed to provide protection from temperatures of +100°F to -90°F.") are very, very intriguing.
It would be interesting to know what consumer sectors are being targeted in terms of development.
A lightweight material that can withstand extreme temperatures only has, .....say, a million different uses.
Red, you sounded like you knew what you were talking about, so I decided to look around and see if I could prove you wrong. Turns out he did make a sonic boom, according to the recovery teams.http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/1...89F00X20121016"It was Mach 1.24. Our ground recovery teams on four different locations heard the sonic boom," said Clark, a former high-altitude military parachutist and NASA doctor who worked on escape systems for space shuttle astronauts.
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