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Open Forum => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Professoralstad on October 16, 2012, 04:25:40 PM
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I'm sure many of you have probably seen this already, but I figured I'd post it here. I don't watch any cable news channels, but I'm sure Fox News execs got a good laugh when their "rival" put this up. Not that any 24-Hour news channel can possibly weed out all errors, but this one's a doozy.
(https://www.cactusforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi815.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fzz80%2Fjsalstad%2FMSNBCFail.jpg&hash=0a60f9da8cbff9afab4c8fb00c9ff350fa2c8585)
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Sorry, I can't read postage stamps.
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Yeah, I had to fix that. That should be better.
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LOL, that is pretty funny.
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Hey, that's obviously true. Light things have less inertia, so their speed is reduced by drag more than that of heavier things like Felix. This is why he fell faster than the speed of light things.
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Science and the media, not bffs
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Sorry, I can't read postage stamps.
Who called?
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My brother works for Discovery channel as a producer and he got to work on that as his first live show. Unfortunately, because of the delays and rescheduling I missed it live but I'll eventually get to see it.
It is not quite the magnitude as the first manned space flight or the moon landing but I think it is kind of sad that such a significant achievement doesn't get the same attention as the next "reality" tv junk. The comments I've heard are about him being an adreneline junkie, having a death wish, being stupid, wasting money on his stunt....etc. Are the majority of people really that ignorant about science and exploration?
That is a funny headline though. I wonder if Felix is just now witnessing his parents' first dance?
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Look I'm just as astonished by this as the next guy but it's not really a leap forward for science or anything. What new scientific grown has he broken? He skydived from higher than anyone else but he's not the first person to go that high, he's not the first person to break the sound barrier, he's not the first to survive that G-load, he's not the first to free fall, and contrary to the marketing of him being in the "edge of space" he was still a very long way off from space so to say he was at "the edge" of it is very misleading. It was an amazing individual accomplishment and a very brave thing to do, but as far as advancing science? Nah. Been there, done that.
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Drink more h8erade. I think traveling faster than the speed of light is an enormous scientific achievement.
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It surely would have been, had we actually done it.
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... contrary to the marketing of him being in the "edge of space" he was still a very long way off from space so to say he was at "the edge" of it is very misleading. It was an amazing individual accomplishment and a very brave thing to do, but as far as advancing science? Nah. Been there, done that.
You are scientifically correct the Karman Line is usually used to denote the edge of space at a distance of 62 mi from the surface of the Earth. Felix jumped from 24.2 mi above the Earth. That height put him just below the Mesosphere. Since the Mesosphere is the range where we see meteors impacting our atmosphere, it does not take much imagination (given the picture at the top of this thread) to see how the mistake was made.