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Forum:	Free Space
Topic:	Red Bull Stratos: Felix Baumgartner's skydive

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by YankeeClipper: [B] [QUOTE]Originally posted by David Carey: [b]Not trying to promote or dismiss any of the perspectives voiced, but here is a Yale physicist's take on the dive.[/b][/QUOTE]Meg Urry's dismissive article is that of a physics professor operating from behind the sheltered walls of Ivy League/Ivory Tower academia. For someone so educated, I found her analysis to be shallow, glib, naive, and contemptuous toward the entire Stratos Project. I very much doubt she has any practical subject matter expertise in the fields of high altitude flight or aerospace medicine. She effectively insulted the project team by her insinuation that all these technical experts had been engaged for years on a "PT Barnum" stunt with little real value. I'm glad she was never one of my lecturers. Connecticut is not New Mexico, theory is not practice, and wind tunnel/computer modeling is not actual stratospheric flight. Meg Urry is no Robert Goddard, thankfully! [On Edit]: The (mainly negative) comments under the article are actually more interesting than the article itself. I reckon the funniest is this one :) <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]"Who cares? It's not like the Red Bull pure physics research budget is being dangerously diverted toward frivolous purposes, while the Red Bull Particle Collider falls into disrepair!"[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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