Anyone watching Felix Baumgartner's jump?

[Scott]

Watching him tumble over and over....I had to go back and watch that again. WOW.

Amazing he didn't throw up and have the inside of his visor filled with frozen vommit. HAHA.

 

[milehighassassin]

Really cool. Science and sports unite!


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[bholmlate]

i was curious if he even has any sensation of actaully falling that fast. I am sure when he was in the flat spin for those few seconds he could feel the forces that were present though. Being in a pressurized suite you just wonder how much he could actually feel. Also with being that high with a fogged up visor he really did not have any outside references that would indicate he was falling that fast. that is moving no question there and what a wild ride.
it was unfortunate that he did not brake the free fall record becasue he could not see his gauges. Since the guy that was helping him was the previous record holder, It makes you wonder if felix did not want to wipe the guys record completely off the books and let him keep the longest freefall record and just blamed it on not being able to see his gauges<O</O

 

[Scott]

i was curious if he even has any sensation of actaully falling that fast. I am sure when he was in the flat spin for those few seconds he could feel the forces that were present though. Being in a pressurized suite you just wonder how much he could actually feel. Also with being that high with a fogged up visor he really did not have any outside references that would indicate he was falling that fast. that is moving no question there and what a wild ride.
it was unfortunate that he did not brake the free fall record becasue he could not see his gauges. Since the guy that was helping him was the previous record holder, It makes you wonder if felix did not want to wipe the guys record completely off the books and let him keep the longest freefall record and just blamed it on not being able to see his gauges<O</O

I saw that he said he had very little sense of falling.

I know the skydivers around here say the same thing...you don't really feel like you are falling like when people jump off a bridge into the river.

 

[PJ-Hunter]

wonder what it felt like when he broke the sound barrier?

 

[srx_600]

He gets award for the biggest bad *** in my books.

I have done the rip cord at amusement parks and i think those are like 190 feet high. I was 14 the first time i did it and handled it well, second time i was 18 and it was a little worse, and my third time (22 now) was this last summer and i about $H!t myself. The older i get the more "aware" of heights i get.

Props to this guy and his amazing achievement.

 

[go high fast]

He should put a patent on this and sell jumps.

He would have a huge market.

 

[aebsledder]

That took some balls to make the step off the capsule platform. Looked like an alien heading back to Roswell for the first minute or so.

Probably why he got going so fast. Balls that big would tend to hurl you towards earth faster than normal balls.

 

[Luke The Drifter]

I watched the whole thing. I'm a geek for these sorts of things lol. There was definitely history made there and the jump had been planned for 7 years they said? I think Redbull has some serious coin to help fund something like this because none of this looked cheap. The capsule, the suit, the staff to coordinate it all. It would take some big bucks methinks. I kinda wonder why NASA hasn't pursued something like this since the original stratosphere jump in 1960?

 

[MORSNO]

It’s a sad day when you realize an energy drink company has a better manned space program.....

 

[milehighassassin]

I watched the whole thing. I'm a geek for these sorts of things lol. There was definitely history made there and the jump had been planned for 7 years they said? I think Redbull has some serious coin to help fund something like this because none of this looked cheap. The capsule, the suit, the staff to coordinate it all. It would take some big bucks methinks. I kinda wonder why NASA hasn't pursued something like this since the original stratosphere jump in 1960?

It's cool for sure. But what would NASA gain from it? Let the private sector do it.


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[milehighassassin]

wonder what it felt like when he broke the sound barrier?

They said very little because of his suit. Pressurized, insulated. He couldn't even hear it.


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[shelbwyo]

I should google this or something but I wonder if I am related in some way to him same last name? Lol