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Title: A touchstone of reality. And Red Bull is awesome, no matter how vile it tastes
Post by: DWC on <10-09-12/1004:15>
It's kind of cool to remember that there are real people who do the things that we hesitate to try with figments of our imagination.

http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/
Title: Re: A touchstone of reality. And Red Bull is awesome, no matter how vile it tastes
Post by: CanRay on <10-09-12/1310:44>
Harry Dresden:  Gandalf on Crack and an IV of Red Bull!
Title: Re: A touchstone of reality. And Red Bull is awesome, no matter how vile it tastes
Post by: DarkLloyd on <10-11-12/1005:24>
too bad they canceled... I would have liked to see what happens to the human body that makes a sonic boom.......
Title: Re: A touchstone of reality. And Red Bull is awesome, no matter how vile it tastes
Post by: Redmercury on <10-11-12/1217:34>
They re-scheduled for sunday. Is he going to make a sonic boom? The air pressure might be too low for it when he actually gets to those speeds. Maybe it'll happen when he hits higher pressure. It all depends how gradual the pressure increase is though.
Title: Re: A touchstone of reality. And Red Bull is awesome, no matter how vile it tastes
Post by: DWC on <10-12-12/1032:54>
Any time you break the sound barrier, you're going to get a sonic boom.  The air pressure just changes what speed that happens at.
Title: Re: A touchstone of reality. And Red Bull is awesome, no matter how vile it tastes
Post by: Redmercury on <10-12-12/1100:36>
Okay, you're right. I was thinking of supersonic speed at ocean level pressure.
Title: Re: A touchstone of reality. And Red Bull is awesome, no matter how vile it tastes
Post by: DarkLloyd on <10-16-12/1137:59>
He seems to be fine and it went off without a hitch. Good on him.
Title: Re: A touchstone of reality. And Red Bull is awesome, no matter how vile it tastes
Post by: PeterSmith on <10-16-12/1404:28>
Quote from: Redmercury on <10-12-12/1100:36>
Okay, you're right. I was thinking of supersonic speed at ocean level pressure.

It turns out that, were he moving at sea level, he still would have moved in excess of the speed of sound. Dude got up over 800MPH.
Title: Re: A touchstone of reality. And Red Bull is awesome, no matter how vile it tastes
Post by: CanRay on <10-17-12/0007:17>
I find it sad that an energy drink is able to do stuff like this, but we can't get the funding from the governments...   >:(
Title: Re: A touchstone of reality. And Red Bull is awesome, no matter how vile it tastes
Post by: PeterSmith on <10-17-12/1015:14>
Money is tight in governments. I'm glad there was a company willing to step up and fund this.
Title: Re: A touchstone of reality. And Red Bull is awesome, no matter how vile it tastes
Post by: Snake Eyes on <10-17-12/1255:34>
That was amazing