Sky Dive from 23 miles

[SmileDocHill]

start a pool on what the max number of viewers at any one time will be?
I'm betting a lot of people are doing the math and are going to log in closer to drop time. At 3,600,000 now, so I'm guessing it will get up to 4,900,000 people.

 

[mrjarrell]

He's about 50 miles east of Roswell, right now. I would have thought he might be a little farther east. Not a pretty place to land, though. Lots of nothing out there.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Blood "boils" due to pressure differences. He's going from about 0atm to less than 1 ATM over 10 mins. That's like going from the surface to 33' below water. I did that in two minutes last week and I'm cool.

Or we're you referring to the temperature of reentry cause blood to hit the boiling point?

 

[Wreaver]

Just over 4 million watching right now.

 

[Suprtek]

Must be a lot of density changes up there or something. His speed of elevation was well over 1000 fps. Now its less than half that.

 

[Suprtek]

Wow. Now the speed shot back up to 1200 fps! Weird how it keeps changing.

 

[Suprtek]

That balloon sure has gotten a lot bigger.

 

[mrjarrell]

Just broke the record for highest ascent in a balloon. Cool!

 

[Audie Murphy]

He's almost there

 

[spainy79]

Over 5 million watching.

 

[Hammer]

Trojan should have sponsored the balloon.

 

[Hoosierdood]

Arrrrgh!!! Dish Network just went down. Maybe the wind and/or weather. Good thing I can watch online, although it is about 30 seconds behind.

 

[Hoosierdood]

OK, had some heavy rain. Dish is back up just in time.

 

[Suprtek]

If I were crazy enough to be up there in the first place, I think I'd be getting ancy to get out before that balloon pops. That thing is getting pretty tight.

 

[adam]

I can't begin to imagine what I would be thinking if I was in that capsule.

 

[cromus]

This is going to be crazy.

 

[littletommy]

Quick and possibly dumb question....what is taking the video of the balloon? Not the interior shots, the shots from below.

 

[mrjarrell]

Quick and possibly dumb question....what is taking the video of the balloon? Not the interior shots, the shots from below.

Special cameras based on NASA tech for the ground shots. That's a helluva telescopic lens!

 

[SmileDocHill]

Quick and possibly dumb question....what is taking the video of the balloon? Not the interior shots, the shots from below.

They guy you don't want to be your neighbor is taking those shots.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Umm, aircraft still exist despite the space program being trashed. Oh, and we have neat cameras and lenses now too!