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MSNBC Chyron Fail: Felix Baumgartner Traveled ‘Faster Than The Speed Of Light’
MEDIAite ^ | October 15th, 2012 | Andrew Kirell

Posted on 10/15/2012 10:12:15 PM PDT by Maurice Tift

MSNBC might want to put some of its graphics producers through basic physics classes again.

  During a brief report on Sunday’s epic Felix Baumgartner sky-dive from the stratosphere, during which the native Austrian broke the sound barrier, the cable network mistakenly labeled his feat as having traveled “faster than the speed of light.”

   Despite the mistaken chyron, host Andrea Mitchell correctly reported that “Fearless Felix” was the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound without being inside a craft of some sort.

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KEYWORDS: baumgartner; chyron; felix; msnbc; nbcnewa
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FTL is possible!! (if you watch MSNBC)
1 posted on 10/15/2012 10:12:30 PM PDT by Maurice Tift
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2 posted on 10/15/2012 10:20:28 PM PDT by Brandonmark (2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
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To: Maurice Tift

Impossible, only a Plymouth Satellite can travel faster than the speed of light.


3 posted on 10/15/2012 10:21:09 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: Maurice Tift

MSNBC says Get Stuffed to Albert Einstein.


4 posted on 10/15/2012 10:21:30 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (I'm voting AB0/RYAN)
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To: Maurice Tift

Faster than frickin’ laser beams? Attached to sharks’ heads?


5 posted on 10/15/2012 10:23:16 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (To bid on this tagline space: www.jeffchandlerstaglinespace.com)
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To: Maurice Tift

“He was traveling faster than the black hole at the center of the universe!”


6 posted on 10/15/2012 10:25:58 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

good lord


7 posted on 10/15/2012 10:26:55 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Maurice Tift

No wonder I couldn’t see him.


8 posted on 10/15/2012 10:28:49 PM PDT by doug from upland (I don't like RINOs, but I love my country more than I hate Romney...Muslim marxist, get out!)
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To: Jeff Chandler
   Steven Wright once said that he almost went back in time by putting 'instant' coffee into a microwave oven, but now it appears that you can possibly do the same thing by jumping out of a balloon. Anyway - I hope Felix Baumgartner saves the footage from MSNBC for his collection. Making MSNBC think you traveled faster than light - priceless!!
9 posted on 10/15/2012 10:30:17 PM PDT by Maurice Tift (You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
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To: Maurice Tift
Not unprecedented. CNN Presents the "faster than light" space shuttle.


10 posted on 10/15/2012 10:34:39 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (The pundits have forgotten the 2010 elections.)
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11 posted on 10/15/2012 10:35:57 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (The pundits have forgotten the 2010 elections.)
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To: Maurice Tift

Humans are as fast as lightning under certain conditions, such as kung-fu fighting.


12 posted on 10/15/2012 10:36:07 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Jet Jaguar

If you want to have someone get the simplest thing wrong, tell it to a journalist.


13 posted on 10/15/2012 10:40:45 PM PDT by poindexters brother
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To: Maurice Tift
Reminds me of this classic:


14 posted on 10/15/2012 10:46:01 PM PDT by Drew68 (I WILL vote to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!)
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To: Maurice Tift

Show me a universe where a man falls from a balloon faster than the speed of light, and I’ll show you steel that can’t be melted by fire.


15 posted on 10/15/2012 10:47:25 PM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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To: Jet Jaguar
Ha...that's nothing....

Obama has a time machine....problem is it only works in 2 dimensions....

but good enough to extract a copy of his birth certificate from the past....

See ....here it comes out of hyperspace from a slot in the machine,,,

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16 posted on 10/15/2012 10:52:58 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: Maurice Tift; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

Well, falling as far as he did, he might have reached the speed of light, who knows. It could be. We have to keep our minds open to the possibility.


17 posted on 10/15/2012 10:55:39 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: Maurice Tift

Proving, once again, the Lorentz Invariance of journalistic stupidity in all frames of reference.


18 posted on 10/15/2012 10:58:04 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Maybe he was a neutrino for most of the jump.)
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To: poindexters brother
If you want to have someone get the simplest thing wrong, tell it to a journalist.

My mom used to tell the story of a scientist who was being interviewed about the possibility of space travel, back in the 1950's, and was trying to explain about traveling through the vacuum of space. When he was asked by a reporter, " Just what does this vacuum consist of?" he replied, "Reporters' brains."

I have always felt, though, that it was not a stupid question.

19 posted on 10/15/2012 11:00:01 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Maurice Tift

I wonder if Baumgartner met with himself before the jump.


20 posted on 10/15/2012 11:03:10 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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