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ducpainter

#120
October 14, 2012, 05:23:49 PM
Quote from: kopfjäger on October 14, 2012, 05:16:34 PM
I am pretty sure there were folks in the control room from NASA.
Lot's of NASA engineers looking for anything to do these days.  ;)

If a human jumping from a balloon could provide important scientific data, you'd think it would have been done before we sent a man into outer space or to the moon...

if any of those things really happened. [laugh]

I mean it's cool and all, but no more significant  scientifically than Evel jumping the canyon IMO. Undoubtedly more expensive.

YMMV

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Kopfjager

#121
October 14, 2012, 05:29:26 PM
It was done before and I thought you were leaving  :-*
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derby

#122
October 14, 2012, 05:31:02 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on October 14, 2012, 05:23:49 PM
Lot's of NASA engineers looking for anything to do these days.  ;)

If a human jumping from a balloon could provide important scientific data, you'd think it would have been done before we sent a man into outer space or to the moon...

if any of those things really happened. [laugh]

I mean it's cool and all, but no more significant  scientifically than Evel jumping the canyon IMO. Undoubtedly more expensive.

YMMV



What do you think the original Excelsior project (and Kittinger's jump) was for?
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ducpainter

#123
October 14, 2012, 05:32:55 PM
Quote from: kopfjäger on October 14, 2012, 05:29:26 PM
It was done before and I thought you were leaving  :-*
Quote from: derby on October 14, 2012, 05:31:02 PM
What do you think the original Excelsior project (and Kittinger's jump) was for?
So why do it again if not to plaster the Red Bull name all over the world?
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 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
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    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
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ducpainter

#124
October 14, 2012, 05:34:09 PM
Quote from: kopfjäger on October 14, 2012, 05:29:26 PM
It was done before and I thought you were leaving  :-*
'I have the right to remain silent...but not the ability.'  :-*   Ron White
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
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Kopfjager

#125
October 14, 2012, 05:36:04 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on October 14, 2012, 05:34:09 PM
'I have the right to remain silent...but not the ability.'  :-*   Ron White

:D [drink]
Woohoohoohoo! Two personal records! For breath holding and number of sharks shot in the face.

Kopfjager

#126
October 14, 2012, 05:38:36 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on October 14, 2012, 05:32:55 PM
So why do it again if not to plaster the Red Bull name all over the world?

Red Bull doesn't need anymore advertising, MotoGP and F1 give them plenty.  :D
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fastwin

#127
October 14, 2012, 05:51:59 PM
Dammit, am I the only one on this planet not sponsored by Red Bull or Monster? Where is my entitlement sponsorship? [laugh] [laugh]
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Ddan

#128
October 14, 2012, 05:53:36 PM
Quote from: kopfjäger on October 14, 2012, 05:38:36 PM
Red Bull doesn't need anymore advertising, MotoGP and F1 give them plenty.  :D

Clearly the Red Bull people think otherwise   ;D

This was a stunt, absurdly high-end, but still a stunt.
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DarkMonster620

#129
October 14, 2012, 08:03:56 PM
and I missed it due to ... not gonna curse here  . . .
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derby

#130
October 14, 2012, 08:43:57 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on October 14, 2012, 05:32:55 PM
So why do it again if not to plaster the Red Bull name all over the world?

Materials and technology have come a long way in the subsequent 52 years.

Also, judging from the records broken, there was stuff left to do.

If it wasn't of interest/value to NASA and the military, they wouldn't have assisted in order to get all the sensor data from Felix's body/suit.
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Grappa

#131
October 15, 2012, 01:01:04 AM
Sounds like a mutually beneficial relationship to me.  Red Bull gets a lot of publicity, scientists get a lot of data to crunch.
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Speedbag

#132
October 15, 2012, 04:14:41 AM
I can see the sponsor decals on future interplanetary rovers in my mind.....
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TiNi

#133
October 15, 2012, 04:33:25 AM
stunt or not it was a risk for Red Bull to sponsor the jump....
what kind of PR nightmare would it have been if all didn't go as planned?

ducrider45

#134
October 15, 2012, 06:53:34 AM
Quote from: fastwin on October 14, 2012, 05:51:59 PM
Dammit, am I the only one on this planet not sponsored by Red Bull or Monster? Where is my entitlement sponsorship? [laugh] [laugh]
I was in talks with them back in my DH race days. Never got a deal, so no you are not the only one  ;)
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