Re: Felix Falls from Space was awesome

2012-10-14 Thread Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > The Dragon launch may have longer importance because of our need to > privatize space flight but for news, today, about the limits of what > humans can do? That jump was some wicked shit. > http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF097-Astronaut_

Re: Felix Falls from Space was awesome

2012-10-14 Thread Judah McAuley
The Dragon launch was very impressive but that was essentially a private company finally doing what NASA (and others) had already done. Impressive? No doubt. The jump today involved a number of bits (technologically and human) that had never been done before and, foremost, involved a real person s

Re: Felix Falls from Space was awesome

2012-10-14 Thread Maureen
Nice stunt. He got a lot more coverage the Dragon launch last week, while I felt was much more important. But I guess Red Bull bought more ads than Space-X. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > I really enjoyed that. I wish they would broadcast more > sciency-enginee

Re: Felix Falls from Space was awesome

2012-10-14 Thread Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > I really enjoyed that. I wish they would broadcast more > sciency-engineeringy things. robots. ocean science. space thingys. > > Thank you Red Bull. > It was cool but my only disappointment was the video on the way down. He needed some

Re: Felix Falls from Space was awesome

2012-10-14 Thread Cameron Childress
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > I really enjoyed that. I wish they would broadcast more > sciency-engineeringy things. robots. ocean science. space thingys. > Watching that guy, literally sitting on the edge of space, his legs dangling out of the capsule waiting to j

Re: Felix Falls from Space was awesome

2012-10-14 Thread Judah McAuley
"My balls broke the sound barrier" - said one man ever. Truly impressive. Judah On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > I really enjoyed that. I wish they would broadcast more > sciency-engineeringy things. robots. ocean science. space thingys. > > Thank you Red Bull.

Felix Falls from Space was awesome

2012-10-14 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
I really enjoyed that. I wish they would broadcast more sciency-engineeringy things. robots. ocean science. space thingys. Thank you Red Bull. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-A