Felix Baumgartner

[mraynrand]

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-li...ickens/1353496

[MadtownPacker]

If you didn't see it, here is their website info on the suit:

http://www.redbullstratos.com/techno...it-and-helmet/

"- 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.

[MadtownPacker]

Fucking badass!! Even the clouds look far away.

[Little Whiskey]

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.

[Freak Out]

Wow, the three of you agreeing.....LegandofthePack is a miracle worker.

The 80s were great.

[George Cumby]

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.

[George Cumby]

A little off-topic, but what's so bad about Vick? Its not like he murdered or raped another human being. Vick killed a bunch of dogs. Dogs are animals. Who hasn't killed an animal?

2 years in prison for killing animals. Fucking ridiculous. If the idiot conservative judge who sentenced Vick were emperor of Earth, we all would be in prison. If you have ever slapped the shit out an annoying mosquito that so innocently landed on a part of your body, you, too, are guilty of killing an animal.

Shut the fuck up.

[hoosier]

Looks like Slim Pickens without his ride.

[red]

Looks like Slim Pickens without his ride.

LOL, thats good shit

[hoosier]

Did Felix Baumgartner create a sonic boom? And if so, would he have heard it as he fell at 840 mph?

[red]

Did Felix Baumgartner create a sonic boom? And if so, would he have heard it as he fell at 840 mph?

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

[Kiwon]

If you didn't see it, here is their website info on the suit:

http://www.redbullstratos.com/techno...it-and-helmet/

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.

[hoosier]

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.

"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.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/1...89F00X20121016

[George Cumby]

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