Today: Felix Baumgartner 36km stratosphere jump

You all remember the Dayvan Cowboy video with the Kittinger jump from the stratosphere (31km free fall).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDvwktPGUbM

Today Felix Baumgartner will do a 36km jump. In Germany it's even live on TV (n-tv, 15:00 german time).

Official trailer:

There will also be a livestream on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/redbull

Maybe this should be moved to a forum people actually care about.

Well yeah they cancelled... Well for some moments there was wind... but now for a longer time absolutely no wind. They were über sensitive? Anyway, waiting for the next try (tomorrow? in a year?)

Mission has been cancelled - ohhhh well, there was a bit of wind... They are very cautious. Seems like they can only start in very rare cases, meteorologically.

But hey. We know the secret plan. New try will be when the next BoC album will be released.

Another day felix, damn i got all excited

very disappointed

i heard he went awol

raincheck

What a pussy.

  On 10/9/2012 at 7:56 PM, Wurstwasser said:

Mission has been cancelled - ohhhh well, there was a bit of wind... They are very cautious. Seems like they can only start in very rare cases, meteorologically.

 

But hey. We know the secret plan. New try will be when the next BoC album will be released.

The ballon was touching ground for a few seconds due to the winds. If this caused small holes in the surface they would grow to big leaks of several meters in diameter or more when the ballon has grown to full size once it reaches the stratosphere

maybe he should bring a parachute then...

the real question is if he's planning to land on a surf board.

  On 10/10/2012 at 6:56 AM, chaosmachine said:

the real question is if he's planning to land on a surf board.

Or in a halftime show.

he wasn't allowed up there or else he'd of seen the mother ships, etc.

wind. such is life.

or with The Queen

Stuff is happening now...

http://www.youtube.com/redbull

I was hoping he would just jump from here and have called it a day

I am watching this but taken in concern how often the start was posponed last time it will not be my first priority to watch it today

fuck it. it's fadded out. pointless now.

The balloon is inflated now.

is it....is it indeed...

I wonder if there's a delay on the broadcast so they can stop it if anything goes wrong.

I like how the commentator can't pronounce "Baumgartner". Sounds like he says "Bum Gutter"

He's off. This is very very cool!