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Offline 007bashir

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Red Bull Stratos
« on: October 14, 2012, 02:34:52 PM »
Just saw the parachut jup from Felix Baumgartner. JUST AWSOME!

Another great leap for mankind.

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Offline Bones

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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2012, 04:20:40 PM »
Yep, gotta admit I held my breath for that moment when he jumped out of the capsule :D man, a hell of a view he had :D
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2012, 05:11:37 PM »
it was epic to watch live... and it is soo close to that one Voy ep ;)
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2012, 06:00:47 PM »
Dude ... over 1,130 kph ... makes me wanna sell my kidney and whatever that can be sold just to jump like him ...  already had a free fall experience with lame parachute jump from 4k m but this is insane ! almost 39k m
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2012, 10:29:07 AM »


Quote from: Nebula on October 14, 2012, 05:11:37 PM
and it is soo close to that one Voy ep ;)
Yeah, I was thinking about that ep as well. :P
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2012, 10:42:18 AM »
Insane.  Got to hand it to that guy! I'm glad he made it home safe and sound :)
Btw, who else heard Joe say "Mind your head" just as Felix was about to jump?  Referring to the soviet attempt in 1962 to break his record which ended up with a dead jumper because he smashed his visor on the capsule on his way out.

As an aside, I also noticed some dumb witch on my facebook say "gutted he didn't die".  Absolutely disgusting!
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2012, 02:44:15 PM »
It was incredible!

Forget the jumping, I'd just be happy to be in that capsule and catching the views from up there... 128,000 feet!!
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2012, 03:25:17 PM »
Joke pix already popping up. :funny


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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2012, 06:33:49 PM »
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2012, 06:39:30 PM »
i congratulate the man and respect him, namly due to its sheer insanity, and he has my envy due to the fact that the experience would kill me.... literally... i can NEVER skydive in my life....  :(

not too keen on corperate space programs either, but the hell with it, anything to advance our exploration of space is good... since NASA is pretty much toast, and the U.S. Militarys space program is.... well.... idk  :idk: i thought the airforce was stepping in with nasa.

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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2012, 08:21:15 PM »
Gives you wings indeed! Watched it live aswell pretty awesome. The moment he stepped off...wow. What a perfect landing too. Hell of a cure for being affraid of heights thats for sure! No way I would ever do anything like that though...I don't even jump over 5ft fences/walls lol. But yeah pretty epic view from the top.
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2012, 05:23:05 AM »
"Whats this big round thing, ound, round, GROUND! Yeah ground! I wonder if it will make friends with me, hello ground!"

*Boom (Cookie if you get the quote. ;))


Kudos to the guy, a real pioneer of the modern age.
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2012, 10:00:23 AM »
Shatner did it better
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2012, 12:10:56 PM »
Killallewoks, that would have something to do with "42" would it not? ;)

Mc, that was in a deleted scene in generations iirc
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2012, 12:18:20 PM »
Quote from: captain_obvious on October 17, 2012, 12:10:56 PM
Killallewoks, that would have something to do with "42" would it not? ;)


Damn, the bowl of pertunias didn't fair as well as the poor whale.  :funny

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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2012, 02:27:35 PM »
Magrothea is so pretty this time of year
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2012, 06:36:11 PM »
Humanity is small. Really small. You just won't believe how incredibly, microscopically, mindbogglingly small we are.
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