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Sorry to be off topic on an off topic subject, but i couldnt find how to make a new thread.

Well here’s my questions. Wouldn’t this camber system be a big help to f1 races? I was watching videos when on youtube when I cam upon this one, looks like it could be something good! Heres the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swa_r7E7gOo

I think it would have been better if they had a camera on his helmet so we could effectively “jump with him” as opposed to the camera shots from Earth, which spoilt it for me because it was basically a white dot failing towards Earth. Gutsy though although I think the commentator was the real hero because he managed to talk for over an hour about, what effectively was, a balloon floating about in the sky!

That was one of the most staggering things I have ever seen. Despite the fact that he was ascending for the bones of two and a half hours, I couldn’t look away from the computer. I have a fear of heights myself and watching him step out onto the ledge made me cringe, but I still couldn’t look away.

I was worried for him as we watched him tumble end over end while falling at that speed, but seeing the parachute open, hearing him talk, and seeing him land safely, was a relief.

It was a fantastic achievement by that whole team. Well done to them!

Related to Zsolt? :P

Am I the only one that wanted something (small) to go wrong? Just to add a little drama… :P

What really surprises me about all this isn’t actually Baumgartner’s jump. It’s the fact that someone jumped from 31000 metres before, and not 10 years ago… 52 years ago !

I watched it all, and the little module, his suit, everything, was so “out of this world” that you wonder what the heck was Joseph Kittinger thinking in 1960?

The man is mad.
But he did it, so Congratulations. A huge accomplishment.