Today:120,000 foot space jump.

squod

I'd say he brought back brown underwear.

Dangerous Man

squod wrote: »

I'd say he brought back brown underwear.

They're up on Ebay now - 'Felix's Space **** Shorts.'

Edit: Please someone come in and say something worthwhile. Don't let this be the last post of the thread.

ScrubsfanChris

Dangerous Man wrote: »

Edit: Please someone come in and say something worthwhile. Don't let this be the last post of the thread.

Ok :P

Watching BBC news saying that the capsule if intact is re-usable. Does this mean we could see alot more jumps, higher/faster, In the coming years or even months...?

shedweller

Has the press conference started yet? I have the youtube page open but it says the conference will be coming shortly.????

Insect Overlord

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Watching BBC news saying that the capsule if intact is re-usable. Does this mean we could see alot more jumps, higher/faster, In the coming years or even months...?

Years, possibly. Someone would need fairly major sponsorship for the attempt, as well as quite a bit of specialised training.

Do Red Bull own the capsule? If they do, they might consider sponsoring another effort, but if they don't then I doubt they'd let someone else use it.

PogMoThoin

I read somewhere there was 7 years preparation

Jimoslimos

Sar_Bear wrote: »

I think he means it'd gonna be crap watchin it when you know everything goes to plan. Like watchin a football match after it's over & knowin the score. Watching it live was the only way to go!

In fairness, even watching live with the 10 minute time delay once he stepped out you kinda knew it was going to go to plan. Otherwise it would have been pulled by then.

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Years, possibly. Someone would need fairly major sponsorship for the attempt, as well as quite a bit of specialised training.

The helium alone would cost a fair bit I'd imagine.

Alexidium

Jimoslimos wrote: »

In fairness, even watching live with the 10 minute time delay once he stepped out you kinda knew it was going to go to plan. Otherwise it would have been pulled by then.

Was it not a 20 second delay?

WIZE

i think its going to be weather world records are broken . sound barrier is a must . We know the freefall record wasnt broken

Alexidium

Does anyone have any information how much Felix got from this whole thing? I doubt he done it for just the record? I'm not sure, anyone?

Jimoslimos

Alexidium wrote: »

Was it not a 20 second delay?

I heard it was 10 minutes, might be mistaken though

omahaid

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Did I just see someone move an Alien through the press conference :eek:

I'd say it was this guy

http://i.imgur.com/RJBmR.jpg

so he didn't manage to break the sound barrier then?

omahaid

glasso wrote: »

so he didn't manage to break the sound barrier then?

I think he did, article isnt too clear

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/skydiver-baumgartner-breaks-record-for-highest-ever-parachute-jump-8206637.html

WIZE

glasso wrote: »

so he didn't manage to break the sound barrier then?

we dont know yet

ScrubsfanChris

omahaid wrote: »

I'd say it was this guy

http://i.imgur.com/RJBmR.jpg

That was him alright :pac:

Dodd

Jimoslimos wrote: »

I heard it was 10 minutes, might be mistaken though

When the balloon was going up and the commentator was quite I turned the sound right up and heard a women talking.
One thing she said was 20 second delay.

Jimoslimos

Dodd wrote: »

When the balloon was going up and the commentator was quite I turned the sound right up and heard a women talking.
One thing she said was 20 second delay.

Yeah, I must have heard wrong. Don't know where I got 10 minutes from.

TouchingVirus

One of the most magnificent things I've ever watched on TV. Glued to the box for 3 hours and I let out a whoop when we spoke the last words and dropped out of the sky. And the bit after he landed when he collapsed onto his knees was incredibly powerful.

As a friend of mine said on Facebook - this was our man on the moon moment

nocoverart

TouchingVirus wrote: »

One of the most magnificent things I've ever watched on TV. Glued to the box for 3 hours and I let out a whoop when we spoke the last words and dropped out of the sky. And the bit after he landed when he collapsed onto his knees was incredibly powerful.

As a friend of mine said on Facebook - this was our man on the moon moment

****! we got the short end of the straw then

ScrubsfanChris

Looks like press conference starting soon...

WIZE

Cameras are live again

http://www.youtube.com/user/redbull

munchkin_utd

WIZE wrote: »

we dont know yet

yup

they are working on the data to see if the sound barrier's been broken at the temperatures and pressure that was experienced on the way down as its different up there than on the ground.
Strange its taking so long though. They had a white module from his suit as he jot out of the recovery helicopter that had all the measurements so you would have thought it'd be reasonably straight forward to process that.

Oh, in the interview with austrian tv he mentioned that he didnt know himself and that if there was a bang then it would happen behind him anyhow so that was expected.

scudzilla

TouchingVirus wrote: »

One of the most magnificent things I've ever watched on TV. Glued to the box for 3 hours and I let out a whoop when we spoke the last words and dropped out of the sky. And the bit after he landed when he collapsed onto his knees was incredibly powerful.

As a friend of mine said on Facebook - this was our man on the moon moment

nocoverart wrote: »

****! we got the short end of the straw then

Ours happened, a faked moon landing in an Area 51 Warehouse doesn't count

ctrl-alt-delete

Rte have him as piercing the atmosphere at speeds topping 11kph, phenomenal

ScrubsfanChris

833mph

Mach 1.24 ...........he did it!

jd007

833 mph!!:eek:

WIZE

833 mph mach 1.24

GLaDOS

He broke the speed of sound! Mach 1.24 I think it was

BorneTobyWilde

over 800 miles per hour
mach 1.24

Fowler87

MACH 1.24 or over 800 MPH:eek: Legend!

munchkin_utd

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Rte have him as piercing the atmosphere at speeds topping 11kph, phenomenal

from the live press conference
1342 kmh is what they measured
Mach 1.24

that was a little quicker than RTE reports !!

EDIT, theres a few of us watching it so.

opinion guy

Jesus he shattered the speed of sound :eek:

ScrubsfanChris

Appantly he didn't pull the parachute early, it was the plan to deploy it at that height.

Defiler Of The Coffin

Incredible. One of the bravest acts I'll ever see.

BorneTobyWilde

Visor ****ed up


'' o fogged up ' lol

TheUsual

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Incredible. One of the bravest acts I'll ever see.

Pah !
Do it without the parachute, then I will be impressed.

Jonah42

TheUsual wrote: »

Pah !
Do it without the parachute, then I will be impressed.

You first.

3ndahalfof6

it would be some bunjie jump, anyone up for a new world record.

Sitec

Amazing to watch, thought the commentary could have been better but what an achievement. Serious dedication to jump from that height, good to see people pushing the boundaries!

ScrubsfanChris

Broadcast over

Hank Scorpio

watching this earlier, glad everything worked out ok

Balls of steel

shedweller

TheUsual wrote: »

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Incredible. One of the bravest acts I'll ever see.

Pah !
Do it without the parachute, then I will be impressed.

Without a chute and use a wingsuit instead. Then land in a field full of cardboard boxes.
Level 10 awesomeness!!

TheUsual

shedweller wrote: »

Without a chute and use a wingsuit instead. Then land in a field full of cardboard boxes.
Level 10 awesomeness!!

Back when I were a lad, we used to dream of cardboard boxes.

We had to jump naked, blindfolded and land on a sharp pile of rusty nails covered in salt.

Rayne Wooney

Trampas wrote: »

After such a great dive in an environment with no atmosphere,

Liverpool have reportedly made a £35 million pound bid

:pac:

MJ23

What happened the pod that he went up in? where does it go?

thebman

Lollers wrote: »

Was going to ask this, did anyone make out the few words he said before the jump ?

Nobody said it so I will.

He said, "I can see my house from here"

Though some thought he said, "Hey Steve, I can see your house from here so I won the bet, you better have the 50 bucks by the time I land".

etc...
etc...

Grid.

****in' incredible..........what a guy!!!!!!!!:D

Renn

MJ23 wrote: »

he'll be killed, the Fukking idiot

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hussey

With all due respect to Felix Baumgartner, Copper Face Jacks is still the biggest dive on Earth.