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# 16 14-10-2012 , 04:23 PM

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LMAO Acid44, I know what you mean
kind of expect him to become the human torch from the fantastic four during his descent once he reaches supersonic speeds

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Not to mention, everyone will be drinking a lot more Red Bull

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LOL, they keep telling him to hydrate
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# 17 14-10-2012 , 04:38 PM

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Yeh, I was wondering about that whole burning up on entry thing... Won't that happen to him? And (unfortunately for him), he probably has a nice cushy diaper on right now user added image

Just passed 20 KM, about 66 minutes in. I wasn't expecting the ascent rate to slow this quickly.

EDIT: Rate of ascent has doubled since I posted that... How does that work?

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# 18 14-10-2012 , 05:01 PM

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the rate of ascent changes at altitudes because of diminishing atmospheric pressure
at different altitudes they have to release ballast (sand bags) in order to keep rising
the final 20-30,000 feet are going to be the slowest going up .........

flame on! LMAO

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# 19 14-10-2012 , 05:05 PM

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26Km up... crazy stuff. Watching the yt stream. 3.75 million viewers. That's pretty impressive for a long series of shots of a metal canister. Just kidding, it's cool.

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# 20 14-10-2012 , 05:07 PM

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I figured that, but it slowed to a crawl so quickly, and then out of no where it doubled. Didn't think 60 pounds of ballast could do that much D:

10 Km left now, ascent speed is still up around 4 m/s. Hopefully not too much longer until the jump, or I'm just gonna pass out on my keyboard user added image

Record's broken, just a matter of surviving now

4000 Feet to jumpitude. So excited to see him explo... I mean... Set a new record.

Nevermind, float height just raised to 125,000 feet

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# 21 14-10-2012 , 05:44 PM

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He's doing it. Starting the checklist to exit.

Earth: The crazy asylum of the universe.

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# 22 14-10-2012 , 05:45 PM

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Yup, still have to wait for it to level out though

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# 23 14-10-2012 , 05:49 PM

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LOL, they keep telling him to hydrate
like, who wants to keep drinking when you have nowhere to let it all out

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Well they would haha.

Interesting fact: No one's ever died from dehydration whilst running a marathon but people have died from over hydration.

Considering this is a giant branding campaign in space-ad style I'm surprised they didn't prepare lots of interesting things to talk about during the ascend of the balloon, if you draw a comparison to the final space shuttle flight last summer this is boring deluxe user added image

obviously companies like Red Bull & Coca-Cola still have a bit to learn from the PR team at NASA.

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# 24 14-10-2012 , 05:55 PM

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This whole time that he's been doing pre jump checks, I've just been waiting for a Redbull logo to come up, and the feed to cut to "To be continued"

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# 25 14-10-2012 , 06:22 PM

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Yay... touchdown. No explosions.

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# 26 14-10-2012 , 06:23 PM

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Sad about the not exploding part. But DAMN my heart stopped when he stepped off

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# 27 14-10-2012 , 06:25 PM

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that was awesome, I can imagine what he was feeling
got some great shots of the planet while ascending, love those views

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# 28 14-10-2012 , 06:25 PM

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Yeah, when the door opened and then control says, "Now remove your seatbelt, Felix." And I'm like NOPE.

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# 29 14-10-2012 , 06:29 PM

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There will be a press conference and they are taking 3 questions live. I have been following the tweets and my favorite was....

The question is how did he fit his gigantic balls into that tiny space suit. lol

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1675

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# 30 14-10-2012 , 06:38 PM

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Haha, I just saw that.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5L-VfzCIAA7P9w.jpg:large

I wonder how long it'll be until he realise just how famous he just became

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