Anybody else watching this space jump??

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🚲🍊Far Side🍊🚲 Oct 14, 2012

Epic! Very cool to watch history being made. Also cool to watch it knowing you guys were watching it too!
@saelo, my breath caught in my throat when Felix was spinning. One of the risks was going into an uncontrolled flat spin during descent, which would have been fatal. Yikes!
ʂƈᵃℓℓẙῴᵃɠ Oct 14, 2012

saelo wrote:
Yes it was such a relief when it opened! It might be spelled "chute." 😍

Yeah I try typing shout but my iPhone don't like that word. 😘
🔰ℬཞüęℵǿཞ🔰 Oct 14, 2012

Bugger 😔 I always miss the cool stuff

Anyone know a replay?
⚪️ Oct 14, 2012

The Far Side wrote:
Epic! Very cool to watch history being made. Also cool to watch it knowing you guys were watching it too!
@saelo, my breath caught in my throat when Felix was spinning. One of the risks was going into an uncontrolled flat spin during descent, which would have been fatal. Yikes!

Omg. No wonder his family burst into relieved cheers n tears once he gained control of the freefall spin. I'm so glad he is safe. 😄😘
⚪️ Oct 14, 2012

🔰ℬཞüęℵǿཞ🔰 wrote:
Bugger 😔 I always miss the cool stuff

Anyone know a replay?

I bet if you google or search YouTube for a full replay you'll find many. Once the press conference is over I would guess that a lot of the live feed links will turn into full replay links.
🔰ℬཞüęℵǿཞ🔰 Oct 14, 2012

Thank you ✌
Was hoping for a website or something hahaha
All these live feed links were making me sad
※ Ꭰ Ꭺ Ꮩ Ꭼ Ᏼ ※ Oct 14, 2012

As he's now the greatest diver ever & performs superbly when there's no atmosphere, LFC have made a Â£47m bid for Baumgartner.
atla Oct 14, 2012

Mach 1.24!
🚲🍊Far Side🍊🚲 Oct 14, 2012

BBC filmed for an in-depth documentary. Planned air date is about 4 weeks. Here's hoping they'll show it on BBC America. In the meanwhile, there's always YouTube :-)
☣Յⅈ☢Ϧⱥʑǻཞđ☣ Oct 14, 2012

Here's a 10 minute video of the whole jump
☣Յⅈ☢Ϧⱥʑǻཞđ☣ Oct 14, 2012

http://myfox8.com/2012/10/14/watch-live-skydiver-to-jump-from-edge-of-space/
GettingLaid Oct 14, 2012

For all you Halo fans, Felix is the closest thing to a real life ODST there is. What an amazing feat.
littlesis127 Oct 14, 2012

LOL just saw this on the news
kid cuban Oct 15, 2012

saelo wrote:
He made the highest jump record but I think he might have just missed the free fall record set in the 60s. Only missed it by a few seconds.

My heart was pounding. Just amazing.

Far Side, thx for live feed URL!

Yea :( sadly he didn't break the hang time record. But he still jumped from fucking space, once in a lifetime oppurtunity right there
⚪️ Oct 15, 2012

Ok here is a cool factoid I heard today. just to put things in a broader perspective. So we know how amazingly high up he was, right? Mind blowingingly high up.

According to astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, if you look at a globe of the earth, Felix jumped from one millimeter high, relative to a school globe.

Wow. We are so small and insignificant relative to "out there." It's also a bit startling to think about how thin our protective little atmosphere is.

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