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Old 15-10-2012, 04:06   #46
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Re: He's for the High Jump!

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Now at over 127,000 feet....
That's 24 miles...

I see arsene wenger of all people has commented

I didn't see the baumgartner incident but I think it unfair to call it a dive as there might have been a little contact
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Old 15-10-2012, 16:15   #47
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Buffering made it nearly unwatchable. Missed him actually stepping out of the capsule. What a shower! 60M connection that can't stream even in SD. I am starting to really lose my temper
I had issues at friends house on an infinity line.. In other words nothing to do with VM, but as it was a Youtube viewing record as well you may find out that the buffering was because of youtube themselves..

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Buffering made it nearly unwatchable. Missed him actually stepping out of the capsule. What a shower! 60M connection that can't stream even in SD. I am starting to really lose my temper

Now that was nothing to do with Virgin, 8 million people were trying to watch the same stream, i was watching it straight through the site and didn't have many issue, must have buffered maybe twice for a few seconds, i was happy with that as i knew how many people were trying to watch it
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Re: He's for the High Jump!

I watched the beginning 20-30 mins on my 3 dongle with no issues, then i watched the last part of the climb to the landing approx 20 mins on my VM 60M connection with buffering a few times especially when he jumped which i missed and a few more times during the descent on the Redbull site.
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Re: He's for the High Jump!

I watched it on the Red Bull site - occasional buffering, but luckily didn't miss the jump or the descent (on 60Mb).
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I watched the beginning 20-30 mins on my 3 dongle with no issues, then i watched the last part of the climb to the landing approx 20 mins on my VM 60M connection with buffering a few times especially when he jumped which i missed and a few more times during the descent on the Redbull site.

There were less people watching at the beginning, most people either didn't know about it to start with or like me, would not bother watching the first part as not much happens for a loooong time, wouldn't have mattered how you were connected to the internet, fact was that Youtube half collapsed under the pressure but i'm impressed as to how well they did with that amount of people watching, it was actually completely down after the jump ended.
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Re: He's for the High Jump!

The redbull site was still youtube just embedded, personally I watched the ascent on the redbull site but the jump on the bbc news channel
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The redbull site was still youtube just embedded, personally I watched the ascent on the redbull site but the jump on the bbc news channel

I did both, with no buffering on my 120Mb
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Re: He's for the High Jump!

What's left to do ? we've climbed Everest ,been to the moon sailed/flew around the world and now jumped from the edge of space and broke the sound barrier in free fall ,what's left to do ?

just noticed it's exactly to the day, 65yrs since chuck yeager broke the sound barrier in the x-1
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What's left to do ? we've climbed Everest ,been to the moon sailed/flew around the world and now jumped from the edge of space and broke the sound barrier in free fall ,what's left to do ?

just noticed it's exactly to the day, 65yrs since chuck yeager broke the sound barrier in the x-1
1,000 mph on land?

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That's cool but it's not far off what's already been done and doesn't have the same impact as say landing on the moon or climbing everest imo
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dunno if anyone has just watched it, but bbc2 just had the documentary on Felix baumgartner's space jump. just say was a brilliant watch and anybody who didn't see it then make use of the iPlayer.

the man must have been nuts...........I'll have some of whatever he's been smoking
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dunno if anyone has just watched it, but bbc2 just had the documentary on Felix baumgartner's space jump. just say was a brilliant watch and anybody who didn't see it then make use of the iPlayer.

the man must have been nuts...........I'll have some of whatever he's been smoking

Just finished watching it and what stood out for me was the first jump by joe Kittinger seemed to be in comparison a "gaffer tape and string" job compared to the technology available for felix's jump.That's not to take anything away from felix's jump it was fantastic but i am glad that kittinger retained some of his record even though he trained felix up to beat it .I'm also glad they devoted time in the program for Kittingers jump

Strongly recommend to watch it on i player
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