Earthling Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Stuff like that sells and pleasing the populous of IQ<90 and keeping the funding rolling in. The 'populous with IQ<90' probably won't even notice until he's been on the Jeremy Kyle show.
X-13 Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Maybe he's really an E.T. and really, he's trying to go home and the parachute is a fail-safe in case the intergalactic worm-hole-portal-star-trek-beam-me-up-scotty thing doesn't work or open. Or if it does open, but his return ticket's expired. I mean, where I live, you can't even get back from London on the train if your ticket's out of date. Just saying...... I think you dropped something.
SYNACK Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 The 'populous with IQ<90' probably won't even notice until he's been on the Jeremy Kyle show. True but the OMG!!!, I 'arrived' in Roswell would be a golden ticket onto that show
Miscbrah Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Stuff like that sells and pleasing the populous of IQ<90 I read that about the Roswell landing site and thought "Oh cool!"
Earthling Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 I think you dropped something. No. Firefly's re-running on the Horror Channel and I always end up like this when it's on. Apropos of nothing, since I read my first sci-fi book, at about 10 years old, (can't remember the title, it was a collection of short stories by A.E. van Vogt), I've always felt incredibly cheated that I was born too early for real space exploration....colonizing new planets, discovering new life-forms, encountering alien cultures. And then, of course, as is our human way, laser-blasting them to a crisp.
SYNACK Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 No. Firefly's re-running on the Horror Channel and I always end up like this when it's on. Apropos of nothing, since I read my first sci-fi book, at about 10 years old, (can't remember the title, it was a collection of short stories by A.E. van Vogt), I've always felt incredibly cheated that I was born too early for real space exploration....colonizing new planets, discovering new life-forms, encountering alien cultures. And then, of course, as is our human way, laser-blasting them to a crisp. Likewise, I have felt like that my whole life, 100-1000 years too early for anything great to happen.
X-13 Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 I've always felt incredibly cheated that I was born too early for real space exploration....colonizing new planets, discovering new life-forms, encountering alien cultures. Too late for exploring Earth, too early for exploring Space... [WAAAAAY too early for exploring other dimensions.]
X-13 Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 too young to die. Live fast; Die young. You obviously aren't living fast enough.
Earthling Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Live fast; Die young. You obviously aren't living fast enough. Haven't got my Z3 yet. And btw, what happened to 'Leave a good-looking corpse'? Not that I can do that anymore, either.
sonofsanta Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Next update: 15:30 GMT Earliest launch: 17:30 GMT Definitely not hanging around at work for the jump then, as it's liable to be near 9pm when he actually jumps at this rate.
aerospacemango Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Too late for exploring Earth, too early for exploring Space... [WAAAAAY too early for exploring other dimensions.] I've always felt that I was born a long, long, time in the future, in a galaxy far, far too close. If I'd been elsewhere, I too could have had a walking carpet and a laser gun! (*) (*) - Signifies a wookie....not a troll....but as there are no Wookie style emoticons, I had to go with the troll
sonofsanta Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 (*) (*) - Signifies a wookie....not a troll....but as there are no Wookie style emoticons, I had to go with the troll Something like ? 1
aerospacemango Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Something like [ATTACH=CONFIG]15495[/ATTACH]? That would be exactly it!
Earthling Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 I've always felt that I was born a long, long, time in the future, in a galaxy far, far too close. Let me reassure you...........you weren't.
aerospacemango Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Let me reassure you...........you weren't. But HOW do you KNOW???
SYNACK Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 But HOW do you KNOW??? The force, it's ways are mysterious but definitive on these things ;D
aerospacemango Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 The force, it's ways are mysterious but definitive on these things ;D Wrong, you may be...
SYNACK Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Wrong, you may be... Sorry, I got my Yoda Backwards; The Force, definitive, but Mysterious it is sometimes
aerospacemango Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 Sorry, I got my Yoda Backwards; The Force, definitive, but Mysterious it is sometimes A simple mistake, made you have!
aerospacemango Posted October 9, 2012 Posted October 9, 2012 And now they are rolling out the balloon.... Launching today is a real possibility! (Typical....just in time for the drive home!!!)
sonofsanta Posted October 10, 2012 Posted October 10, 2012 (edited) Blog | Red Bull Stratos At this stage the mission team is closely monitoring possible new launch days before a green light is given for another countdown. Progress will be communicated as it happens. EDIT: Thursday may be an option, but they only have one balloon left (once unloaded they have to use the balloon or scrap it, so yesterday's went in the bin). They have to have winds less than 3mph to launch. Madness. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19884699 Edited October 10, 2012 by sonofsanta
synaesthesia Posted October 10, 2012 Posted October 10, 2012 They're clearly just rubbish. If Dave can launch a can of beer and curry into space in no less than British Weather, they should be able to do it without a problem!
Rawns Posted October 10, 2012 Author Posted October 10, 2012 They're clearly just rubbish. If Dave can launch a can of beer and curry into space in no less than British Weather, they should be able to do it without a problem! What a waste of beer and curry!!!
SYNACK Posted October 14, 2012 Posted October 14, 2012 He has launched and is now at 32.5 KMs Live Broadcast | Red Bull Stratos
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