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Started by merithyn, October 09, 2012, 02:22:16 PM

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mongers

#60
October 14, 2012, 03:21:21 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 14, 2012, 02:21:55 PM
Big deal. I once ate 20 bowls of chili in one setting.

I see you've been posting in the bbc comments section of the news item:

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Comment number 3. Rob
34 Minutes ago

So this is the most important news story in the world right now? Guy jumps out of balloon. Does nothing for 5 mins. Lands on the ground. This is just one man with too much money and nothing better to do.
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Eddie Teach

#61
October 14, 2012, 03:33:22 PM
Clearly not, the styles are way different.
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CountDeMoney

#62
October 14, 2012, 03:34:41 PM
Meh, worthless without sonic boom pics.  I wanted to see what happened to the exposed human body when it does that.

derspiess

#63
October 14, 2012, 09:56:16 PM
Very cool.
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jimmy olsen

#64
October 15, 2012, 03:11:32 AM
Quote from: mongers on October 14, 2012, 02:13:39 PM
That gif is rubbish, if they'd left the footage run another 2-3 seconds, we see him reduced to a small grey dot, a much better demonstration of the acceleration.
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viper37

#65
October 15, 2012, 01:16:08 PM
Quote from: Malthus on October 10, 2012, 11:01:12 AM
The issue, I would have thought, is whether he's taking a real big risk, and if so, what he hopes to accomplish.

Risking your life for a thrill, to get in the record books, or to promote Red Bull, isn't really the same as risking your life to advance science. Assuming he's doing the former and not the latter.
I think he did it for both.  It doesn't change anything to what I think of him.  I still think he's crazy, but we need crazy people to advance science by experiements.  The first astronauts were certainly a bit crazy.  Landing on the moon in a capsule and walking there?  So many things can go wrong.  Yet, they did it.
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#66
October 15, 2012, 02:05:39 PM
It is one of those pointless endeavours, but it still is totally awesome. NOne of us know what that will feel like.
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Zanza

#67
October 16, 2012, 12:05:32 PM

Eddie Teach

#68
October 16, 2012, 12:18:47 PM
Reminds me of that line "here I am on top of the world, all I need is a beautiful girl."
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merithyn

#69
October 16, 2012, 12:41:59 PM
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

garbon

#70
October 16, 2012, 12:46:36 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 16, 2012, 12:18:47 PM
Reminds me of that line "here I am on top of the world, all I need is a beautiful girl."

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#71
October 16, 2012, 03:44:11 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 14, 2012, 02:21:55 PM
Big deal. I once ate 20 bowls of chili in one setting.
not good enough as you didn't manage to reach orbit.
Eat more and fly higher!

MadImmortalMan

#72
October 16, 2012, 03:49:01 PM
Dude's 26 year old fiancee is a hottie.
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merithyn

#73
October 16, 2012, 03:51:07 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 16, 2012, 03:49:01 PM
Dude's 26 year old fiancee is a hottie.

:yes: :mmm:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Eddie Teach

#74
October 16, 2012, 03:58:40 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 16, 2012, 03:49:01 PM
Dude's 26 year old fiancee is a hottie.

pics?
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