23 Mile High Parachute Jump

weedwalker · October 09, 2012, 12:11:34 PM

Here is a live feed for the jump. Scheduled for 1:30 PM EST.

http://www.redbullstratos.com/live

weedwalker · October 09, 2012, 12:46:22 PM

Delayed

weedwalker · October 09, 2012, 12:51:29 PM

Aborted. Not going to do it today.

KySongDog · October 09, 2012, 03:41:04 PM

I've made one static line jump in my life and I remember standing at the open door thinking "Why am I jumping out of a perfectly good airplane?"

Never made another jump.

Hawks Feather · October 09, 2012, 04:54:53 PM

I have gone up in a hot air balloon and that was sort of cool. Low height but you still wonder where you are going to land. But, there is no way that I would want to jump out of anything unless it was going down.

Jerry

FinsnFur · October 10, 2012, 07:29:35 PM

Yeah you have to wonder what goes through a persons mind that has trained and trained for things like this...as he stands on the edge of..the edge of...well on the edge of NOTHING...there's no other way to put it.

FinsnFur · October 12, 2012, 05:22:16 AM

Calling for Sunday now

weedwalker · October 14, 2012, 06:24:11 AM

Supposed to go at 8AM EST this morning. (Sunday) Live link still works too.

FinsnFur · October 14, 2012, 09:11:18 AM

Lotta people standing around there yapping right now.
Capsule hanging from a crane and some guy up on a forklift working around in the opening of of the capsule from the forklift. I dont know if he's loading sandwiches or what but he's been there forever it seems.

FinsnFur · October 14, 2012, 10:48:20 AM

He's off. There is quite a good delay between this live feed and the live feed from Discovery Channel.
Kinda cool to watch it on both.

KySongDog · October 14, 2012, 11:36:52 AM

I wonder where the balloon and capsule go after he jumps.

Do they blow it up?

CCP · October 14, 2012, 01:22:05 PM

Couple tense moments for me watching.

FinsnFur · October 14, 2012, 01:22:32 PM

That was pretty incredible, wow.
The capsule is coming down behind him.

Thats up there with one of the most incredible things I've ever watched.

coyote101 · October 14, 2012, 01:24:18 PM

Quote from: FinsnFur on October 14, 2012, 01:22:32 PM
That was pretty incredible, wow.
The capsule is coming down behind him.

Thats up there with one of the most incredible things I've ever watched.

I agree, that was exciting! Congratulations to him and his crew.

Pat

KySongDog · October 14, 2012, 01:31:44 PM

Wow! What a ride!

And the capsule is floating down too. I still think it would have been cool to blow it up.

slagmaker · October 14, 2012, 01:51:31 PM

Gona agree with semp. choot the balloon down