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Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for today
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#73FYI, this is the anniversary of Chuck Yeager breaking the speed of sound in the Bell X-1 in 1947:
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#74Felix's helmet heating apears to be broken. They've also cut the radio talk between Felix and Joseph.
Update: They just said that it's just the visor heat that's broken -- not helmet heat.
Visor heat are the wires in the glass that keep it from fogging, like the rear defroster in your car.
And it seems they're not sure if the heat is broken, or just the thermometer.
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#75It seems like some of YouTube's region-based relay stations are down. Temporarily changing DNS to a US-based ISP is advisable. (Viewing from Japan)
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#76The guy commenting on the video seems absolutely clueless.
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#77Re: Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for today
#78IS someone else having trouble with youtube, showing "static" ? (can't connect to live stream)
Same problem here. The BBC are also broadcasting and that stream is working fine for me. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19887652#TWEET...
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
>that means that NASA could deploy these same space suits as an exit plan for astronauts in an emergency. What? For exit plan you need a way to slowdown astronaut from orbit first.
That might not be necessary... won't atmosphere provide enough lateral braking too? Either way, that's easier to do and requires far lesser equipment and prep than a re-entry capsule.
The lateral braking provided by the atmosphere causes objects to burn up.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I often wondered about a possibly connected thing about airplane pilot's microphones: Why is it that pilots, when addressing the fliers over intercom always have terrible sound quality? You'd think that airlines could afford a high-quality microphone considering the cost of the plane and the pilot's time. Air traffic control should appreciate quality audio as well. There could be some ruggedness requirement to these…
Maybe the raw sound input is run through a band pass filter that attenuates all noise outside of the human vocal range. This would make the voice sound "bad" but it would actually make it clearer to understand, especially in noisy environments.
That's actually a very likely explanation. Thank you.