Red Bull Stratos: A Mission to the Edge of Space. 08th Oct
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Hmmmm. Have watched on the phone but can't view it at work, where I posted the link from.
Does this work?
What Felix Saw
Does this work?
What Felix Saw
Eric Mc said:
How can you be "in the atmosphere" and experience "no air" at the same time?
I'd suggest that it is not difficult for the hard of thinking Ickeites.I suppose it was too much to want to see "all" of the Felixeye view.
A fabulous leap into history, I wish I had the balls...
Amazing that somthing that's pretty much been done before generated so much interest worldwide. Just goes to show that all you need to capture public interest in "science" is to put a human in a high-risk situation and generate a bit of P.R. Imagine the non-event it would have been if they'd have dropped an instrumentation pack instead of a human...
perdu said:
I'd suggest that it is not difficult for the hard of thinking Ickeites.
Their current argument for it being "obviously fake" is that there's no continuous footage of the freefall, that the grey footage (thermal image?) is blatantly faked because it's not blue(!) and that there's no way his parachute could have slowed him down from 800mph. Apparently the Google links I provided (after literally minutes of searching) just prove I'm gullible and not thinking for myself. The whole thing is a publicity stunt, is obviously fake and I'm just an unenlightened sheep. Fun!The annoying thing about it is there are obviously people with enquiring minds, but they're allowing that thirst for knowledge to be filled with absolute tosh. In the case of the Baumgartner jump, there's nothing wrong with asking questions about the composition of the atmosphere at that height, or the dynamics of his freefall, it's just that having done so, people aren't prepared for any sort of (scientific) answer that requires some actual thought or which disproves their tinfoil worldview. The whole thing is becoming a religion. Icke himself is giving a SEVEN HOUR lecture at Wembley Arena soon...if that isn't cult-like conditioning, I don't know what is.
hornet said:
Their current argument for it being "obviously fake" is that there's no continuous footage of the freefall, that the grey footage (thermal image?) is blatantly faked because it's not blue(!) and that there's no way his parachute could have slowed him down from 800mph. Apparently the Google links I provided (after literally minutes of searching) just prove I'm gullible and not thinking for myself. The whole thing is a publicity stunt, is obviously fake and I'm just an unenlightened sheep. Fun!
The annoying thing about it is there are obviously people with enquiring minds, but they're allowing that thirst for knowledge to be filled with absolute tosh. In the case of the Baumgartner jump, there's nothing wrong with asking questions about the composition of the atmosphere at that height, or the dynamics of his freefall, it's just that having done so, people aren't prepared for any sort of (scientific) answer that requires some actual thought or which disproves their tinfoil worldview. The whole thing is becoming a religion. Icke himself is giving a SEVEN HOUR lecture at Wembley Arena soon...if that isn't cult-like conditioning, I don't know what is.
I guarantee he won't get me there The annoying thing about it is there are obviously people with enquiring minds, but they're allowing that thirst for knowledge to be filled with absolute tosh. In the case of the Baumgartner jump, there's nothing wrong with asking questions about the composition of the atmosphere at that height, or the dynamics of his freefall, it's just that having done so, people aren't prepared for any sort of (scientific) answer that requires some actual thought or which disproves their tinfoil worldview. The whole thing is becoming a religion. Icke himself is giving a SEVEN HOUR lecture at Wembley Arena soon...if that isn't cult-like conditioning, I don't know what is.
I'm no scientist, I can't do the adding-uppery and subtractery, but I am familiar enough with some of the facts/stuff about the atmosphere to despair at the lack of joined up thinking of these people.
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