Red Bull Stratos jump going down Now!

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Ramrod 10/14/2012 12:32pm
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Unbelievable marketing for RedBull. I wonder if they can calculate the $$ amount of the exposure?
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stillwelding 10/14/2012 12:36pm
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Thanks Ozzy and Tuned Length. And congratulations to Felix and the whole Red Bull Stratos team and Art Thompson's Sage-Cheshire and A2Zfx. Thanks to all on...
Thanks Ozzy and Tuned Length. And congratulations to Felix and the whole Red Bull Stratos team and Art Thompson's Sage-Cheshire and A2Zfx. Thanks to all on VitalMX for all the kind compliments I've gotten from all the Vitard's on here over the years Tongue . I was a small cog in a huge machine of people.
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What material was the frame and capsule made from ?
The frame was 1 1/2 inch 4130 Chromoly tube. Two piece, which held a round pressure vessel. The camera mounts were 6061Aluminum tubing attached to the top of the frame. The capsule was a hand laminated fiberglass ball, covered in insulating material with a plastic skin, sorta like a wrap.
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stillwelding 10/14/2012 12:39pm
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Ramrod wrote:
Unbelievable marketing for RedBull. I wonder if they can calculate the $$ amount of the exposure?
Yes they can, and will.

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Ramrod 10/14/2012 12:43pm
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Ramrod wrote:
Unbelievable marketing for RedBull. I wonder if they can calculate the $$ amount of the exposure?
stillwelding wrote:
Yes they can, and will.
They will study this event in business schools everywhere in marketing class.

Wonder if anyone will copy this kind of thing? Firstly it's a marketing ploy but what makes it good and interesting is that it actually does have scientific merit and athleticism. Very cool.

Congratulations to stillwelding for having a part in it!
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moto329 10/14/2012 1:41pm
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Just announced: 833.9 MPH or Mach 1.24. Absolutely insane.
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Katoom72 10/14/2012 1:42pm
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So JS7 isn't the FMOTP anymore? Sad
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ocscottie 10/14/2012 1:57pm
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@RedBullStratos "That spin became so violent it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound."

That was a very scary couple min!
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swedishfishmx wrote:
ultimate: [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5MGgF5CcAAN6xG.jpg[/img]
ultimate:
that is about the only time YOLO has been worth using lol
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65 years ago today.

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ocscottie wrote:
@RedBullStratos [i]"That spin became so violent it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and...
@RedBullStratos "That spin became so violent it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound."

That was a very scary couple min!
...cont: "There was a time I really thought I was in trouble. I had to decide to fight all the way down and I finally got stable." Felix Baumgartner

These are quotes from the pres conference.
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ocscottie 10/14/2012 2:03pm
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"I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record." Felix
madmaxperformance 10/14/2012 3:53pm
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He sounded pretty oxygen deficient there just before he jumped. Seemed like he was talking slow, and not really at full cognitive function. That was pretty awesome to be going that fast. I dont think he broke the free fall time elapsed record though did he?
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ocscottie wrote:
@RedBullStratos [i]"That spin became so violent it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and...
@RedBullStratos "That spin became so violent it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound."

That was a very scary couple min!
Yeah it was! Not being a skydiver myself I worried he was done for spinning so wildly at those speeds and altitude. Then he seemed to just twist the right way and boop back under control. Cool BAMF!
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Hoov 10/14/2012 5:09pm
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Can anyone explain to me why while going up, there was a band of extremely cold temperatures...like -90F, but at 128,000 feet where he jumped from, it was like +13F? Is there a little warm band right at the outer most atmosphere, just before it plunges to -300F of space?

It was really cool what they did today...I was on the edge of my seat when he went in to that spin...
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wildbill 10/14/2012 5:23pm
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Best Answer

Ozone absorbs more ultraviolet radiation than does air in the troposphere. As a result, the stratosphere is heated, and air gradually increases in temperature to the top of the layer, called the startopause.


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Best Answer Ozone absorbs more ultraviolet radiation than does air in the troposphere. As a result, the stratosphere is heated, and air gradually increases in temperature...
Best Answer

Ozone absorbs more ultraviolet radiation than does air in the troposphere. As a result, the stratosphere is heated, and air gradually increases in temperature to the top of the layer, called the startopause.


Thanks for the response Smile After I posted the question, I did a little google searching and I guess he was not any where near the outer edge of the atmosphere (100 km). Science was not my best subject in school Sick
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JW381 10/15/2012 1:54pm
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ocscottie wrote:
@RedBullStratos [i]"That spin became so violent it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and...
@RedBullStratos "That spin became so violent it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound."

That was a very scary couple min!
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...cont: [i]"There was a time I really thought I was in trouble. I had to decide to fight all the way down and I finally got...
...cont: "There was a time I really thought I was in trouble. I had to decide to fight all the way down and I finally got stable." Felix Baumgartner

These are quotes from the pres conference.
That was definitely scary to watch.

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JW381 10/15/2012 1:55pm
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Is there going to be any camera shots released from Felix's suit anytime??!!
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JW381 10/15/2012 2:09pm
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JW381 wrote:
Is there going to be any camera shots released from Felix's suit anytime??!!
Just found this.
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jtomasik 10/15/2012 3:10pm
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JW381 wrote:
Is there going to be any camera shots released from Felix's suit anytime??!!
JW381 wrote:
Just found this.
Awesome find. Trying to find the entire footage. It's cool when ya see the effect of momentum with next to no air. A little tug one way or the other and away ya go!
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4stroke4DWIN 10/15/2012 3:26pm
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I was amazed at how fast he dropped when he stepped off the platform. I remember looking at the atmosphere readings and it was something like .09 psi just for reference sea level we are 14.6 psi. No atmosphere and air molecules to drag against his suit. Crazy. He sent a tweet right before he jumped saying if your watching Red Bull Stratos retweet. Another thing he stepped off that platform like a boss, balls of steel.
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jtomasik 10/15/2012 3:42pm
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4stroke4DWIN wrote:
I was amazed at how fast he dropped when he stepped off the platform. I remember looking at the atmosphere readings and it was something like...
I was amazed at how fast he dropped when he stepped off the platform. I remember looking at the atmosphere readings and it was something like .09 psi just for reference sea level we are 14.6 psi. No atmosphere and air molecules to drag against his suit. Crazy. He sent a tweet right before he jumped saying if your watching Red Bull Stratos retweet. Another thing he stepped off that platform like a boss, balls of steel.
32.2 feet/second squared. I was at our local amusement park with my son, and we were comparing his initial free fall acceleration to that of exotic cars. I think the faster cars, which will do 0-60 in about 4 seconds, are accelerating at around 22 feet/second squared.
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JW381 10/15/2012 4:16pm
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4stroke4DWIN wrote:
I was amazed at how fast he dropped when he stepped off the platform. I remember looking at the atmosphere readings and it was something like...
I was amazed at how fast he dropped when he stepped off the platform. I remember looking at the atmosphere readings and it was something like .09 psi just for reference sea level we are 14.6 psi. No atmosphere and air molecules to drag against his suit. Crazy. He sent a tweet right before he jumped saying if your watching Red Bull Stratos retweet. Another thing he stepped off that platform like a boss, balls of steel.
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32.2 feet/second squared. I was at our local amusement park with my son, and we were comparing his initial free fall acceleration to that of exotic...
32.2 feet/second squared. I was at our local amusement park with my son, and we were comparing his initial free fall acceleration to that of exotic cars. I think the faster cars, which will do 0-60 in about 4 seconds, are accelerating at around 22 feet/second squared.
As usual, you're wrong. At 100,000+ the effect of gravity is about 9.69 m/s/s, making it about 31.8 ft/s/s.
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jtomasik 10/16/2012 5:00am
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4stroke4DWIN wrote:
I was amazed at how fast he dropped when he stepped off the platform. I remember looking at the atmosphere readings and it was something like...
I was amazed at how fast he dropped when he stepped off the platform. I remember looking at the atmosphere readings and it was something like .09 psi just for reference sea level we are 14.6 psi. No atmosphere and air molecules to drag against his suit. Crazy. He sent a tweet right before he jumped saying if your watching Red Bull Stratos retweet. Another thing he stepped off that platform like a boss, balls of steel.
jtomasik wrote:
32.2 feet/second squared. I was at our local amusement park with my son, and we were comparing his initial free fall acceleration to that of exotic...
32.2 feet/second squared. I was at our local amusement park with my son, and we were comparing his initial free fall acceleration to that of exotic cars. I think the faster cars, which will do 0-60 in about 4 seconds, are accelerating at around 22 feet/second squared.
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As usual, you're wrong. At 100,000+ the effect of gravity is about 9.69 m/s/s, making it about 31.8 ft/s/s.
Well holy fuck. That's a huge difference relevant to a message board....lol. Thanks for pointing it out, sweetheart! Tell me, did you calculate it by multiplying the gravitational constant by the product of the masses of the two objects and dividing by the square of the distance between their mass centers, or did you just swipe it off of a website?


LOL...fucking panties in a bunch, are they? You should go back to the pill you used to have as your old profile pic.
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JW381 10/16/2012 8:53am
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jtomasik wrote:
32.2 feet/second squared. I was at our local amusement park with my son, and we were comparing his initial free fall acceleration to that of exotic...
32.2 feet/second squared. I was at our local amusement park with my son, and we were comparing his initial free fall acceleration to that of exotic cars. I think the faster cars, which will do 0-60 in about 4 seconds, are accelerating at around 22 feet/second squared.
JW381 wrote:
As usual, you're wrong. At 100,000+ the effect of gravity is about 9.69 m/s/s, making it about 31.8 ft/s/s.
jtomasik wrote:
Well holy fuck. That's a huge difference relevant to a message board....lol. Thanks for pointing it out, sweetheart! Tell me, did you calculate it by multiplying...
Well holy fuck. That's a huge difference relevant to a message board....lol. Thanks for pointing it out, sweetheart! Tell me, did you calculate it by multiplying the gravitational constant by the product of the masses of the two objects and dividing by the square of the distance between their mass centers, or did you just swipe it off of a website?


LOL...fucking panties in a bunch, are they? You should go back to the pill you used to have as your old profile pic.
Yes I did, which is how I knew you were wrong. Actually I knew you were wrong because you were posting.
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Barrett57 10/16/2012 9:14am
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jtomasik - It's funny how so few here can simply say, "I stand corrected." The inability to do that shows a true weakness in character.

Perhaps you should take your own advice?

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