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Old 2012-10-14, 14:46   Link #24203
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Originally Posted by Rahan View Post
Yeah, it started to lag, so I switched to a french news channel that was showing it.

Some of the french medias are starting to wonder if he really broke the sound wall...
For me (at London at the time) it worked fine.

As for the sound barrier, I think he didn't break it, when he started exceeding 1,000 km/h he begun to tumble, and then when he stabilized he had reached a denser atmosphere... but the live speed measurement wasn't accurate, plus the speed of sound is relevant to the atmospheric pressure, so I guess there will be a large debate on that.

I am not sure if he was on free-fall for more than 4 minutes, they hid the timer when he deployed the parachute.

Anyway, I am glad that all this waste of money did not end up in a live broadcast of another person's needless death to advertise an energy drink.
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