Red Bull Stratos

[Ronin13]

Fixed it for you...


side note: have you EVER made a jump, Ronin? Then why are you try to diagnose what their problem is?

The guys who spent over a year planning this have NO IDEA, whatsoever, about what they are doing. Forget about the 10s of thousands of combined military and civilian freefall jumps between the jumper and his team, the engineers, meterologists, physicists, and other NASA gurus that have done the numbers on this several hundred times....They should have skipped all that and just asked Ronin for the answers... Come on Roni, you were intel. Use your head.

Easy turbo... I'm just going off of what I know, which when it comes to this, I'll admit, isn't much. I've never made a jump but spent a lot of time with guys who have (granted their highest was 37K). I'm not a weather expert, nor am I a jump expert, never claimed to be. Just said I believe that they wouldn't pick Yuma unless it had more favorable conditions. Remember to breathe, man.

[275RLTW]

Easy turbo... I'm just going off of what I know, which when it comes to this, I'll admit, isn't much. I've never made a jump but spent a lot of time with guys who have (granted their highest was 37K). I'm not a weather expert, nor am I a jump expert, never claimed to be. Just said I believe that they wouldn't pick Yuma unless it had more favorable conditions. Remember to breathe, man.

Well then, please remeber for future reference that landing is only part of a jump. Getting up to altitude and the freefall all have their own requirements. Yuma is small compared to the area near Roswell and since there is a greater area needed to safely launch the balloon to altitude and for the jumper to remain within the projected DZ during his decent, Roswell is a much better choice based upon those conditions alone. Perhaps the US Army didn't want the attention at the facility at YPG, or flat out said no. What you know about jumping because you saw a set of MFF wings once, is nothing. Please keep that in mind before you post random bullshit. Talk about wat you know, not what you THINK you know (or in your case, becuase you were around someone who knows). We discussed this last time you were called out on something, right?

[Fmedges]

Well then, please remeber for future reference that landing is only part of a jump. Getting up to altitude and the freefall all have their own requirements. Yuma is small compared to the area near Roswell and since there is a greater area needed to safely launch the balloon to altitude and for the jumper to remain within the projected DZ during his decent, Roswell is a much better choice based upon those conditions alone. Perhaps the US Army didn't want the attention at the facility at YPG, or flat out said no. What you know about jumping because you saw a set of MFF wings once, is nothing. Please keep that in mind before you post random bullshit. Talk about wat you know, not what you THINK you know (or in your case, becuase you were around someone who knows). We discussed this last time you were called out on something, right?

Damn man, you must be on your period. Go put on your sweat pants and chill the fuck out.

[275RLTW]

Damn man, you must be on your period. Go put on your sweat pants and chill the fuck out.

Not your conversation.

Why do so many people want to jump in and act like experts by saying "well the problem is" or some other shit? Then others think that it is wrong to call someone put for posting mindless verbal diahrrea and decreasing the overall IQ of anyone who reads it? This is not arfcom because we post ACCUREATE information to help the shooting community; not to inflate our post counts and make us feel better about ourselves, or to jump into a conversation and talk shit because you were offended. If your purpose here is to have a high post count by posting about what you do not know or get easily offended...then go to arfcom.

[Fmedges]

Not your conversation.

Why do so many people want to jump in and act like experts by saying "well the problem is" or some other shit? Then others think that it is wrong to call someone put for posting mindless verbal diahrrea and decreasing the overall IQ of anyone who reads it? This is not arfcom because we post ACCUREATE information to help the shooting community; not to inflate our post counts and make us feel better about ourselves, or to jump into a conversation and talk shit because you were offended. If your purpose here is to have a high post count by posting about what you do not know or get easily offended...then go to arfcom.

While I don't disagree with you, you have to remember that this is an internet discussion board. It would be foolish to restrict people to post in threads that they were not experts on. I don't think that it's wrong to call anybody out here, but again keep in mind where you are at. This thread does not pertain to shooting, so I don't really understand your point about accurate information to help the shooting community when it comes to this discussion. I think that we all have to deal with enough bullshit in our day to day lives and we shouldn't have to worry about being "lifed out" on here for giving our opinion as stupid or inaccurate as it may be. That's all I'm saying man.

[Ronin13]

Not your conversation.

Why do so many people want to jump in and act like experts by saying "well the problem is" or some other shit? Then others think that it is wrong to call someone put for posting mindless verbal diahrrea and decreasing the overall IQ of anyone who reads it? This is not arfcom because we post ACCUREATE information to help the shooting community; not to inflate our post counts and make us feel better about ourselves, or to jump into a conversation and talk shit because you were offended. If your purpose here is to have a high post count by posting about what you do not know or get easily offended...then go to arfcom.

Mind your blood pressure- I don't know if your filter is broken or what, "Their first problem was picking NM... " I guess I should have clarified- JOKE ALERT! Hey, ya know why it's windy in NM? Because Texas sucks... Relax a little, don't take life so seriously, you won't make it out alive.

And did you miss my other post- I DON'T CLAIM TO BE AN EXPERT... Your words in my mouth don't taste too good.

[275RLTW]

Mind your blood pressure- I don't know if your filter is broken or what, "Their first problem was picking NM... " I guess I should have clarified- JOKE ALERT! Hey, ya know why it's windy in NM? Because Texas sucks... Relax a little, don't take life so seriously, you won't make it out alive.

And did you miss my other post- I DON'T CLAIM TO BE AN EXPERT... Your words in my mouth don't taste too good.

You're backpedaling after being called out Ronin = your words are not very believable. If your original post is not what you intended it to be, then perhaps you should read it and ensure you are saying EXACTLY what you mean before clicking on the Submit button. Again, you were intel???

There is nothing wrong with posting an opinion as this is what this place is for. However, just spouting off to make yourself feel cool is why people don't like arfcom and it's just plain annoying. People may think I'm a dick after reading this but at least they know I'm providing correct info and not just making shit up. Stop trying so hard to be an "internet cool guy" and just make sure you think before you type.

[Sharpienads]

Damn man, you must be on your period. Go put on your sweat pants and chill the fuck out.

My thoughts as well.

Back on topic, hopefully these guys get to do this soon. Pretty exciting stuff.

[patrick0685]

it to bad they had to scrap the trip today...less then 2kts of wind is pretty light wind