Today: Felix Baumgartner 36km stratosphere jump

whole jump in POV:

 

was just a matter of time before someone did this i suppose, but pretty cool that BOC added the video to their official playlist.

 

[youtubehd]ES02mWIJ2Tk[/youtubehd]

  On 10/16/2012 at 5:51 PM, o00o said:

whole jump in POV:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDPepiYTRG8

 

holy shit thats amazing

so fucking douchebaggy to edit and shorten it and put crappy music in

This dude's an awesome nutter

  On 10/18/2012 at 6:02 AM, data said:

was just a matter of time before someone did this i suppose, but pretty cool that BOC added the video to their official playlist.

 

[youtubehd]ES02mWIJ2Tk[/youtubehd]

 

Thats glorious.

  On 10/18/2012 at 6:02 AM, data said:

but pretty cool the janitor who works at the abandoned hexagon sun studio added the video to their official playlist.

 

fixt that for you

Wow this came out of nowhere:

 

Google's Alan Eustace beats Baumgartner's skydiving record

 

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The Google executive - who is also a veteran pilot and parachutist - had been planning this jump for several years, working in secret with a small group of people trained in parachute and balloon technology

 

Luckily, some people can afford to do it on their own.

 

 

But cool, nevertheless.

There was a documentary shortly after Baumgartner's jump that followed him during the preparation stage and he just came across really badly imo. Massive ego, head completely up his own arse. He threw tantrums and threatened to walk away from the project because the suit people had spent years making for him didn't feel comfortable. I quite like the fact this guy has basically just come out of nowhere like 'oh yeah so that thing you did a couple years ago? Yeah I just did it better and didn't bother to tell anyone lol'

So when will someone fly up to the ISS and jump from there?

  On 10/25/2014 at 10:50 AM, azatoth said:

So when will someone fly up to the ISS and jump from there?

 

When the psychological preparation fails and one of the astronauts commits suicide

DJ Senior Vice President of Balloon Technology

jumping out of balloons in space is so passé

  On 10/25/2014 at 10:50 AM, azatoth said:

So when will someone fly up to the ISS and jump from there?

They would continue to orbit, with a gently lowering elevation if they pushed off of it in the direction of the earth. They would still be travelling so fast along the face of the atmosphere that by the time they got to the main body of the atmosphere, they would burn up.

 

Oh and whilst I'm being faceatious rixxx, it's nonetheless.

 

 

You're welcome everybody.

felix must feel like shit now lel

  On 10/25/2014 at 8:30 PM, logakght said:

felix must feel like shit now lel

He's changing his name to felix bummedgartner.