Google beat skydiving record
25 October 2014, 08:42 AM
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Google beat skydiving record
Alan Eustace, an executive from Google began his free fall from 130,000ft hit 822 mph.
Possible advertising for their wifi from the sky
25 October 2014, 09:38 AM
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They kept that quiet, not seen anything about it anywhere
25 October 2014, 09:44 AM
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Low key event only came across it in another news link. Obviously some ideas(drogue parachute) were adopted to maintain stability whilst in freefall, Baumgartner dangerously suffered from instability.
25 October 2014, 05:13 PM
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He works at Google. Pretty sure that's the extent of their involvement.
25 October 2014, 05:43 PM
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57 yo senior google executive. Maybe it was a private venture. Publicity is publicity
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