• What Absolutely Cannot Go Wrong When Felix Baumgartner Attempts The Longest Free Fall In History
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Faceplate not heated? That's bad...
My question is, if he's got an error with his face plate heater, how does he get down? The balloon is going to burst eventually and he'll have to parachute down regardless.
Does anyone else get annoyed at the annoying use of imperial units by the announcer guy? Pounds per square inch, fahrenheit, bloody hell, use the metric units, this is a scientific mission
[QUOTE=Tony;38033644]Does anyone else get annoyed at the annoying use of imperial units by the announcer guy? Pounds per square inch, fahrenheit, bloody hell, use the metric units, this is a scientific mission[/QUOTE] He's speaking to the laymen. Not everyone listening can grasp scientific measurements completely.
[QUOTE=Tony;38033644]Does anyone else get annoyed at the annoying use of imperial units by the announcer guy? Pounds per square inch, fahrenheit, bloody hell, use the metric units, this is a scientific mission[/QUOTE] I assume he's not knowledgeable about all that. However, there are metric units for everything on the site.
[QUOTE=FFStudios;38033570]My question is, if he's got an error with his face plate heater, how does he get down? The balloon is going to burst eventually and he'll have to parachute down regardless.[/QUOTE] The capsule can descend with Felix if necessary, it has it's own parachutes that open automatically upon disconnection of the balloon.
[QUOTE=Tony;38033644]Does anyone else get annoyed at the annoying use of imperial units by the announcer guy? Pounds per square inch, fahrenheit, bloody hell, use the metric units, this is a scientific mission[/QUOTE] He's American and thus is used to thinking of everything in imperial units. It's not his problem that he can't visualize everything in metric. You've got the handy dandy little sidebar, quit complaining.
[QUOTE=Tony;38033644]Does anyone else get annoyed at the annoying use of imperial units by the announcer guy? Pounds per square inch, fahrenheit, bloody hell, use the metric units, this is a scientific mission[/QUOTE] who gives a fuck, if you want your metric it's right next to the imperial on the stream.
Not to mention, if someone is wanting to convert psi to torr or whatever unit of pressure, google has a handy dandy convertor.
[QUOTE=FFStudios;38033570]My question is, if he's got an error with his face plate heater, how does he get down? The balloon is going to burst eventually and he'll have to parachute down regardless.[/QUOTE] Well, the balloon won't go high enough to burst.
Can't seem to find a good streaming source.
4.5 million people watching it on youtube RIP TV
I hope nothing goes wrong.
[url]http://new.livestream.com/accounts/827371/events/1609132[/url] IT'S HERE
Does anyone know the record for the most-watched livestream? Would be amazing if he broke that too :v:
Gentlemen, we have broken the target height.
He's not going to jump. He's going to fly away. Free. Forever.
Well he made it to height.
When's he jumping? Thought it was 120k?
Let's just hope the visor doesn't ruin this
Please let the face plate heater magically start working.
[QUOTE]I don't see how that balloon will be able to lift the capsule with those massive balls on the inside.[/QUOTE] Still relevant. ETA: "He WILL jump"
Wow so they just confirmed he's jumping for sure, this'll be good
He's going to jump
"He WILL jump" ninja'd.
This is tense. Went from watching this on silent on my second monitor to moving it to the primary one pausing the tv and turning the sound on.
Just confirmed they are going to launch today guys cant wait
[QUOTE=smurfy;38034259]Just confirmed they are going to launch today guys cant wait[/QUOTE] You're a few hours late, he's literally about to jump.
Man has balls.
[QUOTE=smurfy;38034259]Just confirmed they are going to launch today guys cant wait[/QUOTE] They are literally about to jump get watching! [url]http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/[/url]
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