Red Bull Stratos - Live

[Hoss]

Link will be invalid I'm sure once feed is cut.  This is a LIVE Youtube feed.

[Hoss]

Doh. Also noticed that Discovery and Velocity are also carrying this live. Difference is only commercials.

[patric]

Baumgartner's voice sounds synthesized.

[RecycleMichael]

I looked up and didn't see it. It was probably faked in a studio somewhere.

[Teatownclown]

wonderful!

[Hoss]

wonderful!

I was just telling my brother about how fast he appeared to reduce into a white dot after launching off that thing.  No air = little resistance in the fall.  I wonder if they ever verified if he broke the sound barrier...

[Conan71]

I was just telling my brother about how fast he appeared to reduce into a white dot after launching off that thing.  No air = little resistance in the fall.  I wonder if they ever verified if he broke the sound barrier...

I don't know but I've broken wind a whole bunch today. 

What an amazing feat he accomplished at any rate.  Glad to hear he touched down safely.

[heironymouspasparagus]

That's just so wrong on so many levels....

[RecycleMichael]

If I was in free fall that long, I would have updated my facebook status,

[Townsend]

I don't know but I've broken wind a whole bunch today. 

[DolfanBob]

I believe he set a record for the most watched Youtube streaming video with over 3 Million people around the World watching live. Not bad for a Sunday morning.
It's going to be hard walking around with those huge nads he's got.

[Conan71]

He said afterwards he was on the verge of black out a few times, curious if he had some sort of barometric device to open the chute automatically in case he lost consciousness.

[Hoss]

He said afterwards he was on the verge of black out a few times, curious if he had some sort of barometric device to open the chute automatically in case he lost consciousness.

From what I read yes, there was an automatic chute deploy in case he checked out during the fall.

[patric]

At one point there were more than eight million viewers, which probably accounted for the feed only coming in two-second spurts on my end.
Watching on CNN was just as frustrating with all their graphics covering up the action.

There was a safety chute set to automatically deploy at 3.5G in case he tumbled out of control.
Good show nevertheless.

[Hoss]

At one point there were more than eight million viewers, which probably accounted for the feed only coming in two-second spurts on my end.
Watching on CNN was just as frustrating with all their graphics covering up the action.

There was a safety chute set to automatically deploy at 3.5G in case he tumbled out of control.
Good show nevertheless.

Discover/Velocity was carrying it with commercials, void of graphics and mindless banter.  I thought it was pretty cool to have CapCom be the previous record holder (Col Joe Kittenger).