Red Bull Stratos Live

[Chris Meyer]

They're currently floating up but should be jumping a little later today:

http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/

Chris

[Anton Kapela]

We need to do their video stream next time, this is crap!

-Tk

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[Bob Baddeley]

I was curious why there wasn't a map showing the location, so I threw together a quick script that uses their live data (yay for APIs!). http://bobbaddeley.com/redbullstratos/

It shows a map of the location being reported (with altitude in the top right).

Sadly, the location changes are so minute, it's actually pretty boring to look at the map.

bob

[Joe Kerman]

very cool bob!

There is another heavily delayed slow moving event still going on
today as well, the space shuttle is still creeping through the streets
of LA http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/cvplive/cvpstream2&hpt=hp_t2#/video/cvplive/cvpstream2

[Micah Erickson]

He gonna jump! 128,000 ft.

They mention to avoid tumbling when jumping.  Good point since there is barely any air to guide his attitude.

[Joe Kerman]

video feed working for anyone else?

[Anton Kapela]

YouTube crushed by 7.8m streams :(

-Tk

[Chris Meyer]

Was working fine on the Sector line :-)  We watched jump through landing, he was tumbling like mad after he fell for a while but it's expected, he's basically in a vacuum.  He deployed parachute too early to get freefall record but likely broke sound barrier and definitely height/manned balloon flight height.

Chris