23 mile high skydive (he did it, AND LIVED)
 

On Monday, Oct. 8th, Felix Baumgartner will attempt to become the first human to break the sound barrier during a 23 mile high skydive. The attempt is being sponsored by Red Bull, and there will be a live feed of the jump.

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If he successfully makes the jump, he'll never have to buy another beer (or vodka and Red Bull) again.

Weather conditions postponed today's attempt. They are going to try again tomorrow morning.

Pussy.

Yup

Going to launch in about 45 minutes.

If he doesn't jump straight into a hurricane, I don't want to see it.

A real man would do it without a chute.

Dude's wearing a space suit because his blood would vaporize at this altitude.

How do we know that for sure, hm?

Well, we will if anything goes wrong with the suit.

What would make blood "vaporize"?

Near vacuum conditions? Saying that someone's blood will vaporize seems like a bit of a dramatic way to say that. I mean vaporized blood would seemingly be one of the last things one would complain about in that situation.

And the launch is off again today. They are unsure about tomorrow.

I hate it when they ice the kicker.

I'm not really sure, it's from a CNN article.

Record skydive attempt from stratosphere aborted - CNN.com.)

"t temperatures that could hit 70 degrees below zero Fahrenheit or lower, and an atmosphere so thin that his blood would vaporize if he were unprotected, his life will depend on the integrity of his pressure suit."

God needs to stop calling a ninja timeout.

OK, now I agree that he's just a pussy. Just get your damn spacesuit on and jump out of the modified blimp contraption 23 miles to your probable death already.

I hope his frozen parachute opens.

Next window where the weather might cooperate is Sunday, Oct. 14th

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Something tells me this crackpot has too much money. Hope his will has some nice charities in it, just in case...

They are filling up the balloon which from what I understand means it will happen today or it's not happening this year. Something about this being the only balloon (or last one?) and by starting this process it can't be used again if its not used today. It takes weeks to get another one. Or something like that.

Live feed just started.

The ascent takes 3 hours?

I guess I'll wait for the evening news.

They just said 2 hours.

Even at 55,000 feet it looks like he's in space.

Wow- amazing. Yeah, I'm just going to call that space

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CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNONNNNNBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL!

102,000 feet up and counting.

Yea, this dude is crazy.

Getting nervous, so awesome.

Is this problem with the face visor they keep talking about a potential deal breaker? Can he back out at this point even?

I've been turning the volume on and off and it seems like they don't know yet. It may also be that they know and are just letting it go to build dramatic tension

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I wonder if this is what it was like when Chuck Yeager or Charles Lindbergh were breaking records. Clearly there are not really live crowds but I wonder how many hits are on the website or mentions on Facebook or Twitter, which are kindof the modern equivalents for some items. I wonder how many hits are on this website today? For instance, CNN, BBC, and Yahoo have stories on their front news pages about it.

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Should be any minute now.

Plus 1. Watching live at work. Looking forward to the jump.

damn, racing up now.... 2000 ft/min

Yea, it had slowed to a near stall and then all of a sudden it started racing upwards again.

This.

oh get on with it.

If you guys have Discovery HD, they are showing it on that as well as YouTube.

Will have to hit that - after watching for two hours, I've lost my feed.

Is this kindof the whole concept between an airlock and diving to not get the bends?

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I can't even begin to imagine what must be going through his mind right now.

Capsule is starting to fall kindof quickly

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I'd be pissing my pants.

here we go!

Door open!

Holy Shit!!!

The doors open!

good lord