Andrea Mitchell does Science Too!

[Ichingcarpenter]

She not only reports on politics but does science too..




Einstein is impressed with that speed

[lalalu]

1. Greenspan must have some financial interest in this.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. The Speed of light is beyond even

Greenspan's bullshit.

[nenagh]

3. WOW, hahahahaha

Thanks.

Saved that for posterity...

[HereSince1628]

4. I still don't know what actual science was done

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]

5. He broke the sound barrier

in freefall ,he traveled at speeds up to 833.9 mph (1342 km/h or Mach 1.26).

[LonePirate]

6. The science may have to deal with stressors impacting the body, such as temperature, pressure, speed

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]

9. Yes, but was there any high altitude physiology done?

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]

7. Well, it was mainly about record-breaking

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]

11. Agreed. It was a publicity stunt with some scientific interest from outside observers.

[rurallib]

8. I would have bet on FUX to beat the bullshit barrier

Here's a toast to Mrs. Greenspan!

[lunatica]

10. Man! That's fast!

[kaiden]

12. After the Columbia broke up over Texas in 2003,

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]

15. Are you confusing Columbia and Challenger?

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]

13. Tell me she did not say that. That is beyond ignorant.

Anyone with even a modicum of science knowledge would not make a mistake like that.

[caraher]

16. It's on whoever puts the text on the screen

Probably not Mitchell... unless that other person was transcribing fragments of the words she spoke.

[tarheelsunc]

14. So Mitchell is another one of those science denialists?

[AlinPA]

17. It gets worse very day. The media is useless.