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3.2M now, never seen it so high.
3,694,025 watching now!!! WOW
just before he landed there was almost 7,780,000 people watching
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Sorry, I just relaxed and just watched the live stream :), I'll see if I can do it before the jump.
No problem. I just can't relax watching it!
:) Sorry man that I couldn't deliver, I was just too excited watching, lol :P
And then, when I had it almost done, they were about to start, and then, they removed the lat/lon info on the page.
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wow. is he that white haired guy in base station? seems he was also that guy who has set the previous freefall record in the 60s.
Yes, Kittinger is the man walking Felix through the procedures. This is the Dynamic Duo of high altitude jumping. I felt a shiver listening to them, this is a day I think I will tell my children about. p.s. Kittinger is 84!
Looks like the freefall duration record wasn't beaten :(
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#104For those that are curious, the stream is being narrated by Robert Hager [1][2]. [1] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3688609/ns/nbcnightlynews/t/robe... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hager
Thanks. I didn't recognize the voice but I was really glad that they had a nice narrator for all of this live internet coverage.
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#105Today, I am in New Mexico hanging off a wind turbine blade (that's what I do for work), when I noticed a strange looking balloon in the sky off to the north west. I radioed my ground support guy, who got on his iPhone, and sure enough, it's the supersonic skydiver. Talk about front row seats!
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#106Just incredible to watch something like that live. Held my breath the whole time, particular through free fall. When you see him sitting up there from 120,000 feet like he's on a rocking chair, it sort of puts into perspective any time you think you were brave in your life!
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#108To Red Bull: fix your coverage next time! Your website and Twitter feeds weren't really ever carrying the latest information pre-launch, and your blog was 24 hours out-of-date whenever I checked. (Also YouTube was buffering, it wasn't my connection). Bit of a mess from the PR-masters imo.
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#109Could someone explain to me whether this is a marketing stunt and nothing more or whether there is some substance behind this? Put another way: Will any scientists or engineers (at least potentially) learn something interesting from this? It's cool no matter what, but it would be even cooler if there were some substance behind it.
Apparently there are some innovations in pressure suit design going on here. This will be the first time we have a supersonic skydive. This jump would be useful in verifying their models. Use cases of supersonic sky dives... pretty much limited to space launch aborts.
Use cases of supersonic sky dives... pretty much limited to space launch aborts.
There's also a lot of military applications. Most of the previous records were set by Joe Kittinger, Felix's flight communicator, in 60's as part of military research.
As an aside, we don't actually know if this truly is the first time this has been done as there's plenty of reason why the US (or even Russia perhaps) could have already done this in secret.