What Absolutely Cannot Go Wrong When Felix Baumgartner Attempts The Longest Free Fall In History
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fucking weather always ruins everything.
Abort five minutes after they start filling the balloon. Poor guy is getting the NASA treatment.
See you tomorrow it seems.
God fucking shit
They and they aborted.
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They just delayed the mission to tomorrow due to wind problems
[img]http://puu.sh/1d34t[/img]
Aborted, gutted.
Wind is a gigantic faggot
The wind was so calm for like the past hour.
ahahahahahaha
They said they had the perfect timing to launch to balloon half an hour ago, but I guess the balloon wasn't ready yet.
Wait so it's definitely delayed for tomorrow? Cause I don't wanna miss this and I'm fearing they'll do it later today if the wind calms down.
They said they're going to give it another try tomorrow, so I don't think they'll secretly still launch it today. They're already deflating the balloon.
Disappointment. Did they set a new launch day?
woops ninja'd
They've said tomorrow is a possibility, nothing more.
They mentioned that they require about 2mph or less for wind speed. Gonna be a huge bitch to time it so there is virtually no wind.
But damn....you could see the huge disappointment everyone in mission control and stuff had when they had no choice but to abort it.
Their equipment is saying there is only 0.8mph wind speed right now.
[QUOTE=Renderman;37973508]Their equipment is saying there is only 0.8mph wind speed right now.[/QUOTE]
Every now and then there are sudden bursts of wind, which makes lift off still a dangerous choice to go for.
What if when the thing finally goes up in the air, the wind suddenly goes up and blows the balloon all the way to hell.
From what I gather the chances of launching tomorrow are even slimmer than today, hopefully there's a lucky window of opportunity.
[QUOTE=Garik;37973761]What if when the thing finally goes up in the air, the wind suddenly goes up and blows the balloon all the way to hell.[/QUOTE]
Then i guess felix would hopefully have enough time to eject the capsule and land safely with his parachute.
[url=http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33.394266,-104.523024]Sadly I don't believe that there will be a launch tomorrow or Wednesday due to a 20-30% chance of thunderstorms[/url] I got my whole school excited for this and then they aborted. Stupid safety. :(
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Called it
[quote]Weather Update: Tomorrow conditions are not suitable for a launch. Weather updates coming soon[/quote]
delayed until december 21st 2012
his jump will end the world
[QUOTE=jordguitar;37975232]delayed until december 21st 2012
his jump will end the world[/QUOTE]
he'll crack open a redbull at the moment he breaks the sound barrier and the release of sheer potential energy inadvertantly ignites the atmosphere
I think he'll simply crush the earth with his gigantic balls.
Countdown starts again!
9 hours til tentative launch!
Tomorrow's the big day. Time to set my alarm and get plenty of sleep!
live stream starts in 4 minutes
[URL]http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/[/URL]
Lots of tweets saying Felix is doing breathing preperations for heading up.
OH SHIT NIGGUHS IT'S GOING DOWN.
[editline]14th October 2012[/editline]
Streams up!
[editline]14th October 2012[/editline]
Estimated jump time is 14:45 GMT.
Weather hold. Launch window opens @ 8:45 MDT. Wind too strong at top of balloon. Team optimistic conditions will improve.
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