Red Bull Stratos
Oct 14th 2012, 10:35 am
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
Its on in 1 and a half hours.........
Oct 14th 2012, 4:54 pm
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
This is bizarre - he's Tweeting from 75,000 feet............ you get a signal up there????
Oct 14th 2012, 4:57 pm
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
He's obviously not on QTel. I can't even get a signal at home.
Oct 14th 2012, 5:37 pm
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
any minute now!
Oct 14th 2012, 7:16 pm
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Oct 14th 2012, 7:32 pm
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
Oct 14th 2012, 7:42 pm
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
He's Tweeting some superb messages........
Best one I saw from one of his followers: "Best prank ever - we are all dressed as apes when he lands......."
Best one I saw from one of his followers: "Best prank ever - we are all dressed as apes when he lands......."
Oct 14th 2012, 8:53 pm
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Oct 15th 2012, 3:59 am
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
It was quite a daredevil feat but nothing on the ADFF short film One Man's Tricycle (2012) about this young Saudi lecturer who zips around the mean streets of Riyadh on a low-riding tricycle.
In a country where rising oil prices and environmental issues are of little interest to the public, one man strives to make a difference. Hussam Almulhim traded his luxury car for an as HPV (Human Powered Vehicles) as his daily means of transportation, to play a role in energy conservation.
Fair play to the guy in trying to get people on their bikes but he will get himself killed. Some cities are just not designed for bikes let alone tricycles that you cannot see from over your dash. Big gasps from the audience when he zips in and out of traffic in his thobe. He's quite clearly a religous man and is calling on god's protection to get him to KSU from Sulmaniah every day!!!
In a country where rising oil prices and environmental issues are of little interest to the public, one man strives to make a difference. Hussam Almulhim traded his luxury car for an as HPV (Human Powered Vehicles) as his daily means of transportation, to play a role in energy conservation.
Fair play to the guy in trying to get people on their bikes but he will get himself killed. Some cities are just not designed for bikes let alone tricycles that you cannot see from over your dash. Big gasps from the audience when he zips in and out of traffic in his thobe. He's quite clearly a religous man and is calling on god's protection to get him to KSU from Sulmaniah every day!!!
Last edited by flares; Oct 15th 2012 at 4:02 am.
Oct 15th 2012, 9:46 am
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Re: Red Bull Stratos
Managed to race home and get back 2 minutes before he jumped. Amazing, though it looked like it was going tits up for the 1st few minutes as he spun about.