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For one, as other people have pointed out, these are jokes. They aren't intended to belittle anything that is useless; they are just meant to provide a little p
by lambda 14y ago
For one, as other people have pointed out, these are jokes. They aren't intended to belittle anything that is useless; they are just meant to provide a little perspective about something that is getting a lot of hype.
For another, the hype has been a bit excessive on this one. Calling this "the edge of space" is not really honest. He jumped from 23 miles up, from a balloon. Just the fact that he jumped from a balloon should make you stop to ask if it's really "space"; one of the defining features of "outer space" is that it's beyond Earth's atmosphere, and if a balloon is functional, it is not beyond the atmosphere. While where "space" begins is a bit of a fuzzy question, as the atmosphere slowly thins rather than stopping at an exact altitude, a commonly accepted limit is 100km (62 miles) above sea level. Other measures range from 50 miles to 76 miles. Regardless, 23 miles is nowhere near "the edge of space".
Now, he did break some impressive records; highest manned balloon flight, highest skydive, and greatest speed in free fall. But he did not, by most measures, approach the edge of space. So throwing in a little perspective about that is not bad, it's just deflating the hype a little.
- chris_wot 14y agoImma let you finish, but I just want to tell you that the Space Shuttle hit the highest record for a manned spacecraft OF ALL TIME. Seriously, until a man launches himself from the thermosphere, you can colour me unimpressed.
- mseebach2 14y ago> the Space Shuttle hit the highest record for a manned spacecraft OF ALL TIME What about the Apollo missions?
- chris_wot 14y agoUnless I'm much mistaken, didn't they use a space shuttle?
- mmcnickle 14y agoNo.
- ema 14y agoThe last Apollo mission was almost a decade before the first flight of a space shuttle.
- chris_wot 14y agoIn that case, I was very much mistaken!
- clueless123 14y agoNot trolling at all(Honestly!).. but Wow! the fact that someone does not know about the Apollo missions really, really, makes me feel old!
- betterth 14y agoIf it makes you feel better, this millennial knows very well what the Saturn launch system looks like! You can thank Space Camp for that :)
- eternauta3k 14y agoFor a second I was impressed, thinking you were born in this millenium. Oh well.
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- chris_wot 14y agoI knew about the space missions, just don't know much about the vessels they used to get the men into space! I guess I showed my ignorance, but I did learn something. It's been many years since I saw the movie, to be honest... and that's about the extent of my knowledge of the mission. P.S. they happened in the '60s and '70s. I'm in my 30s with two kids. You're not that old :-)
- tripzilch 14y ago> For another, the hype has been a bit excessive on this one. Calling this "the edge of space" is not really honest. And you can probably thank the Red Bull marketing teams for that, it's their job to spread exactly that hype, even if it's completely dishonest.
- bruceboughton 14y agoAs a point of reference, NASA didn't award gold astronaut pins to shuttle astronauts until they went above 50 miles altitude.