here's a fun youtube LIVE video (if you're online now) where RedBull is sending a guy to the stratosphere to jump out and break the speed of sound in a free fall.  Crazy!
Live Now! - Red Bull Stratos - freefall from the edge of space

sorry, false alarm.  it seems to have been canceled due to winds.

Quote from: leaf on October 09, 2012, 18:55
sorry, false alarm.  it seems to have been canceled due to winds.

Ahhh looked awesome...! Would have liked to see that (or maybe not if we catch a live suicide!!)

Delayed till Thursday.

A 23 mile free-fall where he expects to exceed and break the sound barrier in a free-fall.

If i remember right he has already jumped from 18 miles once before.

hes going up with a go pro on his helmet and a dslr to get aerial shots to sell them on microstock for $0.30 @ - he is trying to carve out a niche for himself since every other possible subject is saturated...

Quote from: noodle on October 10, 2012, 01:31
hes going up with a go pro on his helmet and a dslr to get aerial shots to sell them on microstock for $0.30 @ - he is trying to carve out a niche for himself since every other possible subject is saturated...

HahA funny but so true in an extreme kind of way he has a niche alright

Quote from: noodle on October 10, 2012, 01:31
hes going up with a go pro on his helmet and a dslr to get aerial shots to sell them on microstock for $0.30...

No wonder he is jumping...

There might be lots of false alarms with this.  I remember a few years ago there was an attempt to break the manned balloon altitude record.  It was aborted many times due to high winds and they ended up abandoning the attempt.  They did get lots of publicity though and I wondered if they were really serious about doing it because they were launching in Cornwall UK.  Don't get many wind free days here.  Hopefully this attempt will actually happen.

Quote from: sharpshot on October 10, 2012, 08:38
There might be lots of false alarms with this.  I remember a few years ago there was an attempt to break the manned balloon altitude record.  It was aborted many times due to high winds and they ended up abandoning the attempt.  They did get lots of publicity though and I wondered if they were really serious about doing it because they were launching in Cornwall UK.  Don't get many wind free days here.  Hopefully this attempt will actually happen.

What you mean Rebius Kanebius (Evil Kenevil) really didn't want to jump the Grand Canyon. What a scam that was!

I agree, every failed or aborted attempt is a news day. The sponsors need to get their name in bigger letters, in every headline. 

Bringing it back because he is going for the jump today.

Watching it live
http://www.servustv.com/cs/Satellite?pagename=Stratos/Layout

he's in the air!

Watching right now...crazy...

Anyone know how long it's going to be before he jumps?

approx 2 hrs from ground to jump point - so not too much longer now

amazing!

ok, he's going to jump!
Exciting!

That was amazing.  His footage should be good.  Looked like the Getty photographer was first to greet him

That was amazing, especially him going through the vacuum layer.

Yeah he did it!

I saw the speed exceed 700mph.

.. and now I missed it   .. I'll have to watch it later

Hopefully the sales of my images with people jumping from the Stratosphere will go up now. Need to get the production costs back in!

very hard to find words to describe what I have felt, from the other world really, watched almost from the start and the moment the capsule opens is surreal and a few seconds later he is out and jumping after greeting us, incredible emotional looking at him with earth below his feet, thank you Felix

Sometimes you have to jump really high to realize how small you are. I'm going home now. (Felix Baumgartner, seconds before the jump)

That was awesome. The guy has guts. A couple of times when they were going through the checklist and he wasn't doing what they said and wasn't answering, I thought he was going to bail. But he did it! The view from outside the capsule was incredible. I can't imagine falling through the air at 700+ mph.

There's a news post on the internet that he hit 833.9 mph.  That's quite a bit higher than the number that was being streamed as he fell (729 mph), but I didn't pick up where it came from (radar tracking?).  Any way you look at it, one gutsy guy.

Guts my ashe!

He has kahonas of steel!