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    Red Bull Stratos

    Is anyone here watching this

    A guy is going to jump from a balloon at 120,000 feet in an attempt to break the sound barrier in free fall.

    They are broadcasting it live on youtube:

    www.youtube.com/redbull

    It's currently in weather delay and they hope to launch at 17:30 GMT

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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    must be quite an amazing view!
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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    I cant get the blummin thing to load here......

    been trying since 2pm

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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    you'll probably be home by the time the weather clears enough at this rate.
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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    they have updated the info.

    Broadcast starts at 17:00 GMT so about 20 minutes

    Crew is laying out the balloon

    ---edit---

    I just realized the UK is currently GMT +1 so 6pm not 5pm like I thought, another 42 minutes to go
    Last edited by Larkspeed; 09-10-2012 at 05:19 PM.

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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    and aborted....
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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    2mph wind stopped play :|

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    off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    did he bottle it?

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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    he couldn't get it up!

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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    postponed not cancelled, guy can't jump in wind. Blame the weather gods.
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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    expecting to attempt at noon gmt tomorrow

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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    It's an amazing thing, I still find it hard to believe that the original records were set more than half a century ago. Joseph Kittinger is a bit of a hero to be doing that back then. There's a beautiful video of it on YouTube. Can't even begin to imagine what it must've felt like when he was standing there about to jump, or how Baumgartner will when he does. I really hope they manage to get conditions good enough to go ahead. I very much am looking forward to seeing the footage.
    Trying again in an hour I think?

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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    http://www.redbullstratos.com/

    Currently on a weather hold countdown now shows 2 hours

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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    inflating now!

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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    I have left the stream open while im doing other stuff and the updates keep catching me off guard >_<

    Looks like the wind is slowing down so they should have a chance at it.

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    Re: Red Bull Stratos

    the fact they are inflating is a good sign.

    Once inflated they can't reuse the balloons. They only had 2 and they used up one on the last abort.

    If they abort this time it's going to cost them a lot of money to make another attempt.

    Also a bit of trivia for you, it was 65 years ago today that Chuck Yeager became the first man to take an aircraft supersonic.

    How cool would it be if on the anniversary of that event Felix Baumgartner became the first man to go supersonic WITHOUT an aircraft

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