What Absolutely Cannot Go Wrong When Felix Baumgartner Attempts The Longest Free Fall In History
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So, He only live once to get to jump out from near outer space. This man has the balls of steel
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;37933765]Hnnnghhh, all that wasted Helium. I'm cringing horribly.[/QUOTE]
It seriously is a huge waste of helium. Helium is a very important product that we are running out of and with stuff like this, it sucks because it can bring a halt to researchers with smaller budgets.
[editline]6th October 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=NO ONE;37934039]Of course it is sponsored by Redbull :v:.
I would love to do this. Probably requires more concentration than a traditional skydive (monitoring gauges and timing when to pull the shoot), but the visual effect of zooming in to Earth must be 100X more breathtaking.[/QUOTE]
For the first 30 seconds... And then its all, "Well shit, what do I do now?" for the other 14 minutes.
[QUOTE=jaykray;37930142]If you're going faster than the speed of sound what would happen if you shouted? Is it like the faster than light car shining it's headlights thing?[/QUOTE]
Nothing. You couldn't shout because of air being pressed into your mouth at the speed of 343m/s, have fun trying to breath.
[QUOTE=Killuah;37934376]Nothing. You couldn't shout because of air being pressed into your mouth at the speed of 343m/s, have fun trying to breath.[/QUOTE]
He has a suit.
If you mean it like "what if we put a speaker on a plane and a micro a few inches behind it and then send a signal while flying really fast, you'd probably hear the sound like normally since the speed of sound is pretty slow.
[editline]6th October 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Chernarus;37934393]He has a suit.[/QUOTE]
Then he'd just hear his shout like normal since the air and his mouth inside the helmet is not moving at all relative to his ear.
they don't need a balloon, they could just use his massive balls
[QUOTE=jaykray;37930142]If you're going faster than the speed of sound what would happen if you shouted? Is it like the faster than light car shining it's headlights thing?[/QUOTE]
The air inside the suit is mostly stationary relative to the suit, so he'd still easily be able to talk to the people on the ground, assuming there's a microphone in there. The speed of sound isn't a constant value, after all. It can change depending on things like air pressure, water pressure(if it's underwater), etc..
Damn, it's delayed.
12 hours to go! I dunno if it gonna be a success. But kudos to the guy if he does.
If he were to burn up in the atmosphere, I would laugh so fucking hard.
[QUOTE=Moustacheman;37965542]If he were to burn up in the atmosphere, I would laugh so fucking hard.[/QUOTE]
Burning up in the atmosphere requires extreme quantities of friction and high-speed. You're not going to "burn up" even if you fall at 340 m/s.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;37965659]Burning up in the atmosphere requires extreme quantities of friction and high-speed. You're not going to "burn up" even if you fall at 340 m/s.[/QUOTE]
Your extensive knowledge of burning never fails.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;37965659]Burning up in the atmosphere requires extreme quantities of friction and high-speed. You're not going to "burn up" even if you fall at 340 m/s.[/QUOTE]
Thank you for your knowledge, mein fuhrer. I'm sorry for my incompetence.
I feel Google missed an opportunity here with their Google Glass
[QUOTE=TheTalon;37967315]I feel Google missed an opportunity here with their Google Glass[/QUOTE]
Isn't he wearing a GoPro or something?
2 hours motherfuckers
[QUOTE=monkey11;37967688]Isn't he wearing a GoPro or something?[/QUOTE]
Well if he is. GoPro has more reasons to advertise like mad. They already have cameras on fucking everything
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Holy damn I need this as a wallpaper, it's perfect.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=jaykray;37930142]If you're going faster than the speed of sound what would happen if you shouted? Is it like the faster than light car shining it's headlights thing?[/QUOTE]
Speed of sound is relative, speed of light is not.
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i love you <3
Is there a stream that i can watch on my android phone?
[QUOTE=brainmaster;37969849]Speed of sound is relative, speed of light is not.[/QUOTE]
Within the same medium, when you're changing mediums the velocity changes.
The feed just went live.
[url]http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/[/url]
UFO's everywhere
If he travels faster than sound and screams, does it mean he'll hear his screams a few moments after shouting? I have no idea how it works with soundwaves.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;37969924]If he travels faster than sound and screams, does it mean he'll hear his screams a few moments after shouting? I have no idea how it works with soundwaves.[/QUOTE]
He's got a helmet on with a bubble of air around his head that travels at the same velocity as he does. So all that will happen is mission control will freak out for a second.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;37969924]If he travels faster than sound and screams, does it mean he'll hear his screams a few moments after shouting? I have no idea how it works with soundwaves.[/QUOTE]
If he's traveling faster than sound, wouldn't that mean that if he screams he hears nothing at all, since he's falling away from sound. My guess is that if he really falls faster than sound, he'll outspeed soundwaves, but I'm not an expert on that either.
and we now have sound
[editline]9th October 2012[/editline]
and goodbye sound!
you cant hear anything when you freefall with no helmet because of all the wind rushing past your ears anyway :v:
But hes wearing a helmet so he would be able to hear himself just fine
They moved the launch back to 9pm EST
I've been up all night to make sure I don't miss this. If I fall asleep during my Comm lecture it was totally worth it.
but they keep pushing it back fuck
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