RedBull Stratos...Felix Baumgartner....700mph+ FreeFall

[Civpilot]

Does anyone know who the american commentator was?

The voice sounds really, really familure but I cannot place it 100%

[CraigyMc]

Art0ir said:

Miserable fecker

Pretty much everything in that article is bks. It's someone trolling.

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[Art0ir]

CraigyMc said:

Pretty much everything in that article is bks. It's someone trolling.

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Hmm aren't Eurosport the main backers of the IRC? And Red Bull became the WRC promoter in August. /Tinfoilhattery

[ajprice]

MSNBC. Quality journalism

[croyde]

Ay Carumba!!!!

[CraigyMc]

(a) He wasn't in space

(b) he was clearly faster than light

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[PanzerCommander]

ajprice said:

MSNBC. Quality journalism

Didn't they do something similar when Columbia broke up?

[Mactheknife]

[FactoryBacked]

Art0ir said:

CraigyMc said:

Pretty much everything in that article is bks. It's someone trolling.

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Hmm aren't Eurosport the main backers of the IRC? And Red Bull became the WRC promoter in August. /Tinfoilhattery

I would say that is spot on. They appear to be quite bitter about losing the WRC promotion job! They also appear to be using the Daily Wail tactic of producing link bait which appears to be doing the job.

[CraigyMc]

croyde said:

Pot Bellied Fool said:

Fantastic feat - even my wife was transfixed.

Just curious, what was the function of the red button he hit before stepping off? An 'Emergency Stop' ain't going to do much for you there!

Toilet flush.

Nope, that's one of the toggles on the suit.

The red button is marked "do not push".

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[ofcorsa]

CraigyMc said:

Pretty much everything in that article is bks. It's someone trolling.

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I love point 5 - Free Advertising. Not my definition of free!

[AreOut]

El Guapo said:

OK, I have already donned my flameproof suit, but I can't honestly say that I would rate this stunt highly on my list of great human achievements.
The altitude & freefall speed numbers are impressive but I don't see that it required a great leap in courage or skill compared to a regular freefall jump out of a plane at 10,000 feet.

he has done what noone did before, and if not for his experience that spin he fallen into could prove fatal for many other inexperienced people

if I was to estimate survival probability it would be somewhere around 98/2(compared to 99.9/0.1 for 10K feet jumps), but 2% to die still takes some balls

[CraigyMc]

ofcorsa said:

CraigyMc said:

Pretty much everything in that article is bks. It's someone trolling.

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I love point 5 - Free Advertising. Not my definition of free!

:nods:

Of course it's free if you ignore the costs of... well, everything.

[RizzoTheRat]

Especially as they mention the estimated cost being $30m in the same paragraph. If that's thier idea of free I'll happily go and explain to them what a sonic boom is for free.