The tech behind Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric skydive

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I've been curious for a long time why Ziff Davis devotes so much attention to spamming HN. And then today it clicked after I saw this story at the top or /r/technology submitted a couple hours after it was popular on HN.<p>HN provides a vector for popular spam submissions here to be legitimately submitted on <i>Reddit</i>, without all the hassle of spam detection and moderators getting in the way.

This podcast has an interview that explains the camera tech used <a href="http://www.fxguide.com/therc/red_centre_073/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fxguide.com/therc/red_centre_073/</a>

Here's a video overview of the (highly specialized) skydiving rig used: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SErtpdKLsM4#t=5m20s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SErtpdKLsM4#t=5m20s</a>

i wonder what the final price tag on this was? has anyone seen a number put on it?