2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAndrea Mitchell does Science Too!
She not only reports on politics but does science too..
Einstein is impressed with that speed
lalalu
(1,663 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Greenspan's bullshit.
nenagh
(1,925 posts)Thanks.
Saved that for posterity...
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)As it was presented it was mostly about record-breaking by a record seeker.
I haven't read anything about what scientific purposes were actually pursued. I suppose that will come out in the book.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)in freefall ,he traveled at speeds up to 833.9 mph (1342 km/h or Mach 1.26).
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)We may have already known these things; but it was a new experiment with different variables and conditions. If nothing else, if reaffirmed the need for his jumpsuit.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I haven't heard anything on that, and what might have been done and what was could be very different.
Maybe redbull just needed an ad campaign featuring a record-breaking parachute jump.
caraher
(6,279 posts)In terms of science, broadly construed, there were supposedly some incremental advances in pressure suit design. I don't think there would be much more than that.
A colleague estimates that he could have flown 750 research balloon flights to the same altitude with his instruments with the amount of helium lost forever to the atmosphere by this stunt. I think he and others should switch to hydrogen anyway given the impending helium shortage... but in any event, science was never a significant objective of the record-breaking effort.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)rurallib
(62,448 posts)Here's a toast to Mrs. Greenspan!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)kaiden
(1,314 posts)scientists wanted to know if they could protect astronauts in such a situation if they were wearing, upon reentry, the correct space suits, helmets and each had a parachute. The astronauts could "eject" and then freefall for a certain amount of time before releasing their parachutes. If I remember, many of the Columbia astronauts were alive until they hit the ground.
caraher
(6,279 posts)The re-entry heat that destroyed the orbiter would have killed individual astronauts attempting an egress, and this is the first I've heard of anyone riding Columbia to the ground. But Challenger's disaster at launch is the one where there is good reason to believe astronauts survived the explosion and were alive until hitting the water.
I do think that all the engineering information needed to design individual escape systems for launch failure existed prior to the Red Bull record skydive. Perhaps there's a little data to add from this, but it certainly didn't drive the project!
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Anyone with even a modicum of science knowledge would not make a mistake like that.
caraher
(6,279 posts)Probably not Mitchell... unless that other person was transcribing fragments of the words she spoke.