nickie on 14/10/2012 at 18:21
R Soul - thank you so much for the reminder - I wouldn't have missed that for the world.
R Soul on 14/10/2012 at 18:31
When he started tumbling I thought he was in trouble, but he recovered well. I liked the bit where he was just surrounded by blue sky, and then briefly we saw a flock of birds.
Tomi on 14/10/2012 at 18:34
That was pretty cool indeed. I was a tiny bit disappointed that they didn't show any footage from the in-suit cams though, but I guess we'll see some of that later.
And yeah, thanks for the reminder R Soul. :cool:
nickie on 14/10/2012 at 18:43
Apparently the BBC are producing a documentary of the 5 years this took to put together so perhaps we'll see some interesting stuff in that.
nickie on 15/10/2012 at 16:55
Well he did break the speed of sound. Amazing. And he also set a (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19947159) YouTube live view record!
Probably most people here are too young to have watched Armstrong's first step live but this gave me a similar feeling watching Baumgartner looking down as he stood outside the capsule. Just awe. And I keep wondering what it is that makes people want to do something as crazy as this. In the psyche? In the genes?
SubJeff on 15/10/2012 at 16:57
It's in the balls of steel.
Vasquez on 15/10/2012 at 17:47
Just out of curiosity, how would you have reacted if he had splatted into ground at gazillion mph and died?
nickie on 15/10/2012 at 18:04
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
It's in the balls of steel.
I knew it would be something important like that.
Vasquez, from what I could gather, there was a system in operation that, if he got into trouble, a parachute would automatically have been deployed. I thought there was a more than good chance he'd be fine. But . . . if he hadn't made it, I'd never forget that either. I think the word tragic is overused, but that's what it would have been to me I think.
Tomi on 15/10/2012 at 18:19
I heard that there was a 20-second programmed delay in the broadcast as well, so that if something had gone horribly wrong, they would have obviously ended the broadcast.
