nikvoodoo
Oct 14th, 2012, 07:44 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9608140/Felix-Baumgartner-watch-the-jump.html
"So what did you do today, Felix?"
"Not too much. Just floated 24 miles into space, got bored and jumped out of my little pod like a fucking pimp."
"Wow. Sounds pretty routine."
"Yeah, once you've broken the sound barrier in free fall once with nothing but a pressure suit, you've done it a hundred times."
Uh....wait what??!!
If you didn't see this today, click the link. Watch this jump. It's an incredible thing this man and his team accomplished today. Not only surviving Mach 1.24, but regaining control from what could have been a deadly horizontal spin. And some nice poetic justice that the man whom held the record before him was in mission control talking him through the whole thing.
For you forum members who are old enough to have experienced the Apollo missions, I'm envious. This guy didn't even reach outer space and I was glued to the tv. Pretty cool day for the human species and for science.
"So what did you do today, Felix?"
"Not too much. Just floated 24 miles into space, got bored and jumped out of my little pod like a fucking pimp."
"Wow. Sounds pretty routine."
"Yeah, once you've broken the sound barrier in free fall once with nothing but a pressure suit, you've done it a hundred times."
Uh....wait what??!!
If you didn't see this today, click the link. Watch this jump. It's an incredible thing this man and his team accomplished today. Not only surviving Mach 1.24, but regaining control from what could have been a deadly horizontal spin. And some nice poetic justice that the man whom held the record before him was in mission control talking him through the whole thing.
For you forum members who are old enough to have experienced the Apollo missions, I'm envious. This guy didn't even reach outer space and I was glued to the tv. Pretty cool day for the human species and for science.