Red Bull Stratos - Highest Skydive Ever

[steaky360]

http://www.redbullstratos.com/

The Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt to become the first human to break the sound barrier unaided by a vehicle.
BBC News Report Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19860249

Absolutely fantastic! Good Luck to him!

 

[SmokeDarKnight]

I know read this at lunch time. hope he is videoing it.

 

[steaky360]

I know read this at lunch time. hope he is videoing it.

Oh he is, there is a Live Feed (actually 20 mins delayed but still...)

http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/

 

[SmokeDarKnight]

Damn my work, its blocked.

 

[steaky360]

Ditto :'(

I'm also offshore so it would probably take about a week to buffer (crappy satellite interwebs)

 

[Rakk]

It's not blocked from my work, though whether I'll remember I'm supposed to be watching when it comes round to about 3pm I dunno

 

[steaky360]

It's not blocked from my work, though whether I'll remember I'm supposed to be watching when it comes round to about 3pm I dunno

You have to watch and commentate for me and SmokeDarKnight!

.....Or if you like you could set up a duplicate 'non-youtube' stream I actually don't really know if that is possible haha.

Also, its probably going to be more like 5pm by the time he's getting ready to jump. Delays to launch and the 3 hour ascent time will eat up most of today.

 

[SmokeDarKnight]

Yeah Rakk, a live stream would be great.

Preferebly more detail than

14.00 Leap
14.01 Fall
14.15 Splat

 

[Rakk]

Also, its probably going to be more like 5pm by the time he's getting ready to jump. Delays to launch and the 3 hour ascent time will eat up most of today.

You're probably right there, so it will basically be about 5:05, cos at that point I'll just be starting to drive home and therefore wil miss it whilst stuck in traffic, or at about 7pm when I'm going along to collect a box from UPS

 

[SmokeDarKnight]

http://www.youtube.com/embed/vkJ5ItzEq3M?autoplay=1&wmode=transparent

Heres the youtube site i can get that to work, its been but back to a 14:30 launch so far.

 

[steaky360]

Still doesn't work for me Damn... Oh well I'll have to watch it afterwards lol

 

[Rakk]

Though I'm confused, is it a 14:30GMT (ie in about 1hr 15mins) or a 14:30BST launch time (ie in about 15 mins), it claims GMT, but all the messages seem to think it should be pretty close.

 

[steaky360]

GMT and BST are the same surely?

EDIT: Ignore me, I'm being a fool...

There is a timer on the website counting down to launch either way so its "BST" (ie in about 10 minutes) - unless its delayed further...

 

[Rakk]

GMT and BST are the same surely?

No, BST(British Summer Time)= GMT+1

And looking at a few sites, it's only 7:20ish now MDT anyways, and presuming the MDT time is correct, its a good hour away from any launch presuming it doesn't get any further delays

 

[steaky360]

No, BST(British Summer Time)= GMT+1

Yeah ... took me a minute to click it wasn't "british standard time" *Facepalm

 

[DeadEyeDuk]

Also looks like a delay (according to Mr Amos's twitter). Something about wind/weather etc, with the decision on whether to go or not set to latest 16:30BST (British Summer Time - THE TIME YOUR PC SAYS! )

 

[SmokeDarKnight]

Its been delayed again till 17:30 GMT.

Next update at 15:30 GMT

Edit sorry GMT not BST, GMT is 1 hour behind our BST

 

[steaky360]

Still 1 hour to go. Must have been really windy!

 

[steaky360]

Launch canned for yesterday - next possible day is tomorrow (Thursday) - I might get to watch it yet if its delayed any longer!

 

[SmokeDarKnight]

New launch time due in 2 days 21 hours, this sunday.