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rook
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Topic: Red Bull + a 50 year old record = Massive TestisPosted: Mar/17/2010 at 8:42am |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/science/16tier.html
This is why I love red bull. Supersonic skydive from 23 miles up. "Fearless Felix, as his fans call him, has something more difficult on the agenda: jumping from a helium balloon in the stratosphere at least 120,000 feet above Earth. Within about half a minute, he figures, he would be going 690 miles per hour and become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound. After a free fall lasting five and a half minutes, his parachute would open and land him about 23 miles below the balloon." “We just don’t know what will happen to Felix and the suit when he goes supersonic,” The best part is they have no idea what will happen to him once he goes supersonic, he could get knocked out, ripped apart nobody knows. All I have to say is this guy is shtooking CORE (for once I think this is the correct usage of core). ![]() |
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Spenser W.
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+1 for the correct usage of "core"
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giftedhands
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now thats a midlife crisis.
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Fincky
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I dibs going second. I wonder if they have an automated parachute release trigger, Surely he is going to go unconscious |
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Timmay_650
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That is crazy trying to break the sound barrier. If anyone else watch the video on the page, what was with the close up on the hands, it was kinda odd.
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jasonFTW2
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Posted: Mar/17/2010 at 9:36am |
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wtf. thats pretty ridiculous
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Jaboogie
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“We just don’t know what
will happen to Felix and the suit when he goes supersonic,” I love that part
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Posted: Mar/17/2010 at 10:23am |
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This is awesome. I wonder if they have a way to control his chute other than opening it if he does get knocked unconscious.
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rook
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Posted: Mar/17/2010 at 10:29am |
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^^^ I am sure they will have safety chute, but Felix will have unlimited pussy card for life.
Random Female "Hey what do you do for a living?" Felix "Well once, I jumped out of a balloon from 23 miles above the earth broke the sound barrier, I am the only person ever to do that" Random Female **drops pants** |
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Posted: Mar/17/2010 at 11:10am |
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Kinda makes other sports that test the limits kinda weak. I mean, who can say they broke the sound barrier?
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I want to see this, when is it??
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i hope he wears a gopro HD.
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This would be awesome
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it would suck if he dies
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yeah i broke a sound barrier once no big deal though.
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+1 for the gopro HD lol
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I wouldn't go supersonic if it would only gives me one massive testis...
But damn, this guy truly has some balls. Someone should email him with the gopro idea. ![]() |
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rook
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^^^
True story should be testes!! whoops |
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That is pretty freaking awesome.
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ShredbettyZoe
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Damn. When is this happening?
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rook
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He has some insane stuff on youtube, I didn't want to post them all but this one is pretty cool.
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he'll slow down guys...
the point is to drop from high enough where the atmosphere is thinner so air resistance is lower, go super-sonic (my guess is that's super-sonic at sea level?), and then he'll slow back down to 124 mph before releasing his chute. still core though...
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I want to go!
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Just call me Dan
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Spenser W.
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NBC has dibs on covering it
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rook
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Posted: Mar/17/2010 at 3:24pm |
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Oh for sure, once the air gets heavier he will drop back down to terminal velocity and release his chute. But the fact that they really have no idea what will happen when/if he goes super sonic is awesome.
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Posted: Mar/17/2010 at 3:35pm |
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I cant wait to see him do it. This is crazy! haha
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That sounds pretty awesome. Can't wait to see the video of this.
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I hoping this doesn't turn into the Felix Fireball.
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Shake and bake...
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Re: threat title, I think you mean "testes." Unless this dude thinks one ball is going to make him more aerodynamic.
And yes, this dude has nuts of steel.
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ROLL ON, BISHES.
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what happened to terminal velocity???
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You mean Thread title....... and I already got busted, I meant testes. nothing funnier than pointing out wrong word usage with wrong word usage.
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rook
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Up that high the air is thinner....... aka less drag = go faster.
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Interesting NY Times article.
I wish him best of luck. It will be quite the feat if he is successful. |
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I think this is funnier. Especially the line at 0:46 (spoken for truth!) ![]() |
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ROLL ON, BISHES.
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wow this is pretty insane. very interested to see how everything goes.
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Not only is RedBull awesome for doing this but, this is why this is my favorite forum. You can usually find cool shit on here
. Horray Sierra!
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I saw this equation on the forum homepage and it got me excited for nothing. I thought there might be a physics conversation going on somewhere.
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HAHAHA, same here herb. I was wondering which thread it would be.
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hahaha:
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I missed it, did they say how they would record the jump?
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His terminal Velocity will be higher because his suit will pack on a lot of mass. Also, the speed of sound is somewhere around 760mph at sea level, but he is jumping from 23 miles above sea level.
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![]() here's a pretty crazy page on the history of supersonic flight.http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter3.html |
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I'm in...hell I will even do it naked
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So ugh...
How many redbulls will he drink before doing this.. I think he will puke |
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Wow, first terminal velocity equation now airfoil diagrams, I'm loving this.
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