52 minutes until some mad bastard called Felix Baumgartner jumps from a long way up.

http://www.redbullstratos.com/

I reckon he will black out..

I recon he’ll make it back to earth without too many problems.

he’s going the wrong way.

Carmen_Sandiego said:

I recon he’ll make it back to earth without too many problems.

If he only has his pants full of sh*t, he will be getting off lightly I recon.

Don’t want to be picky, but isn’t he falling, or dropping, if you are jumping aren’t you sopposed to go up, even if only for a very short time.

bob(from black rock) said:

Don’t want to be picky, but isn’t he falling, or dropping, if you are jumping aren’t you sopposed to go up, even if only for a very short time.

One can jump down stairs so IMO jumping need not include an upwards motion.

Is it on a hold or is that countdown timer accurate? How long will the ascent be?

They’ve either put it off for a few hours, or he’s come to his senses, I’m not sure which.

sibeen said:

They’ve either put it off for a few hours, or he’s come to his senses, I’m not sure which.

Send Buster out first.

It’s on a weather hold. Earliest launch at 1400 hours Zulu (GMT for the numpties).

http://www.b3ta.com/links/Dudley_Moore_Jump_You_Fucker_Jump#582266

Not going to happen. Been put on hold for another three hours.

Put on hold my arse. He’s gutted out.

Are they blaming the weather? I wonder what altitude the troublesome weather is at?

It’ll be global fucking warming next, that’‘ be the bloody excuse.

Global warming, my arse.

This event seems to have some interesting ramifications for your arse, Sibeen. First holding, then warming. Should we brace for tearing, waxing or burning?

sibeen said:

It’ll be global fucking warming next, that’‘ be the bloody excuse.

Global warming, my arse.

bumgarter?

It’s been called off for the next day or so.

Possibly for the next week or, failing that, next year.

Shit a lot happens in New Mexico. Shuttles, mad bastards and Branson’s space tourist thing.

“I suppose I could dash to the shop & get a packet of biscuits,” muttered Bubblecar, grudgingly.

Wrong fred though.

He jumped yesterday after making a speech.

wasn’t Bill going to do this?

>>“I suppose I could dash to the shop & get a packet of biscuits,”

You can’t keep up this mad hectic pace of life, you need to take time to smell the Rosé

Arts said:

wasn’t Bill going to do this?

He can jump off our workshop roof here in NM while I serve coffee and doughnuts :P

Leap from space postponed due to wind gusts

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-10/baumgartner-jump-postponed/4304374

An Austrian skydiver’s attempt to become the first human to break the sound barrier without the aid of a vehicle has been postponed. … The huge, gossamer-thin balloon which was to have taken him aloft could be seen buffeted by the winds at the launch site in Roswell, New Mexico.

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So, a hot-air balloon is not a vehicle now?

Roswell? I’m sure you lot could work with that. :)

Roughbarked – you are a Baumgartner. That name translates as “Tree Gardener”.

Roswell? I’m sure you lot could work with that.
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I was waiting for one of the tribe to pick up on that and run with it.

sibeen said:

52 minutes until some mad bastard called Felix Baumgartner jumps from a long way up.

http://www.redbullstratos.com/

That looks like fun, a guy did it decades ago, I think as part of the SPACE program or some such.

Michael V said:

Leap from space postponed due to wind gusts

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-10/baumgartner-jump-postponed/4304374

An Austrian skydiver’s attempt to become the first human to break the sound barrier without the aid of a vehicle has been postponed. … The huge, gossamer-thin balloon which was to have taken him aloft could be seen buffeted by the winds at the launch site in Roswell, New Mexico.

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So, a hot-air balloon is not a vehicle now?

Roswell? I’m sure you lot could work with that. :)

Roughbarked – you are a Baumgartner. That name translates as “Tree Gardener”.

Ah, a cunning linguist. :)

So, a hot-air balloon is not a vehicle now?

helium surely? and the “vehicle” wont be around him when he breaks the sound barrier.

“and the “vehicle” wont be around him when he breaks “

Fixed.

I just heard that they are going to put it off for a little longer due to weather, and that they only have one quarter of a million dollar balloon left..

sibeen said:

http://www.b3ta.com/links/Dudley_Moore_Jump_You_Fucker_Jump#582266

It must have been a 1,000 years since I last heard that, still funny.