That was off the charts badass. Very cool.
That was off the charts badass. Very cool.
I thought the same. I thought that would be different.
Major league sphincter pucker when he stepped off that platform.
That was reminiscent of the old days, when Walter Cronkite covered the space flights.
Amazing camera coverage.
You have my permission to Felix.
we need more of this stuff - lets go to freakin mars. I am still wired from that.
Meh. Joe Kittinger jumped from 102k more than 50 years ago, obviously with sketchier technology and general knowledge of what would happen to him. Note in link below, his glove lost pressure and his hand swelled up to double size, and how in an early jump he accidentally ended up in a flat spin at 120 rpm with 22+ g's experienced by his extremities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger#Project_Excelsior
Joe's Balls > Felix's Balls
One address dude wrote:
Meh. Joe Kittinger jumped from 102k more than 50 years ago, obviously with sketchier technology and general knowledge of what would happen to him. Note in link below, his glove lost pressure and his hand swelled up to double size, and how in an early jump he accidentally ended up in a flat spin at 120 rpm with 22+ g's experienced by his extremities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger#Project_ExcelsiorJoe's Balls > Felix's Balls
Who cares, he's still the second most badass dude on the planet right now. And it was so cool to hear Kittinger himself talking him through the mission from the ground. You could tell how proud he was. But the best part about this mission was that we got to follow it live. The moment when he dropped from the capsule was exhilarating.
Yup, pretty cool watching Kittinger talk him throiugh the sequence3, although he did keep misstating the wind direction for landing.
Pretty awesome watching that surrounded by other skydiver.
The top speed was 833 mph and the speed of sound is 768. Was there a sonic boom?
I'm no physicist wrote:
The top speed was 833 mph and the speed of sound is 768. Was there a sonic boom?
His top speed was 729 mph.
Name is Baumgartner wrote:
Am I the only one that though this was Allyson Felix? I got all worried for a minute.
I thought Allyson Felix was going to try the long jump.
Really
There was a loss in communication during the live stream. His top recorded speed was 833.9mph. The speed of sound also decreases with increasing altitude, so he smashed the barrier
Lionheart. wrote:
Racism everywhere wrote:Not a single black person in Mission Control. Is that racist?
You never see black personnel in any genuine mission control, they only appear in those fictitious ones in Hollywood movies or TV series.
and rap videos.
toro wrote:
Name is Baumgartner wrote:Am I the only one that though this was Allyson Felix? I got all worried for a minute.
I thought Allyson Felix was going to try the long jump.
Really
Me too
I'm no physicist wrote:
The top speed was 833 mph and the speed of sound is 768. Was there a sonic boom?
Speed of sound is related to temperature. Sound travels slower at higher altitudes due to lower temperature. I believe it is 660mph at 30,000 ft. and ~750mph at sea level.
On the sonic boom, I would assume there would be but whether anybody was there to hear it is another question. I haven't seen all the instrument readings.
did baumgartners seem disoriented or freaked out to anyone else? He didn;t seem to be responding to mission control's instructions. Hard to tell because he had on a spacesuit, but mission control had to repeat several commands.
I wonder if he was petrified with fear. Which would make the jump even more impressive as a human achievement - it's ok to be scared - it's getting the job done regardless that makes a great man.
If a tree falls in the woods and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sonic boom?
How far away from the launch spot did he actually land?
I do not think he was freaked out in the capsule, he was a little slow responding to the checklist from Kittinger but I think it was just difficult to move around and he was just a little slow.
He did sound a little worried in freefall about the spinning and about the visor fogging over.
He landed about 43 miles East of the Roswell airport, where he took off from.