09-26-2012, 12:43 PM
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He's got a pressure suit on to protect him from the lack of pressure up there and from the cold. Also, he's obviously got a steady air supply, or else he'd just pass out considering there's almost no O2 up there. Also, it's not like he's re-entering the atmosphere like astronauts do. He's just going very high up. I remember reading about this a while back and it said that even though he's super high up there he still has like 3 atmospheric layers until he would hit space. I don't think the balloons can go that high though. |
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09-26-2012, 12:53 PM
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Not sure how much higher that is than the other jump, crappy article. I think kittenger did 105k ft, he's probably doing 110k or so.
I jumped from a balloon from 16,000 ft once, we had no oxygen so that's all we could go. I highly recommend it. |
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09-26-2012, 12:56 PM
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Not sure if serious and stupid or trolling? 
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09-26-2012, 12:58 PM
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He's going to space to come back to Earth?
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09-26-2012, 01:12 PM
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It's relatively safe, He'll open at terminal, but teminal will only be around 120mph as any other skydive. He'll start falling really fast because of the thin air, but will actually slow down as he gets lower, Kittenger opened really high, 18k, I imagine this guy will open under 5k. Also back when kit did it, people did not know how to freefall so he was totally out of control and spinning the whole time.
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09-26-2012, 01:14 PM
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I would never do that, the risk is too high.
I'll show myself out. |
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09-26-2012, 01:42 PM
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0.o Almost all skydivers pull their chutes at terminal velocity.
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09-26-2012, 01:46 PM
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09-26-2012, 03:22 PM
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09-26-2012, 03:36 PM
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Let's just hope he doesn't space out during the fall and forget to open his chute at the right time. |
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09-26-2012, 03:44 PM
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I'm expecting the worst, because it sounds more exciting than seeing a safe landing.
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09-26-2012, 04:06 PM
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Dear god I want to do this so bad or at least do something like this.
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09-26-2012, 04:10 PM
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He'll break his neck and his legs are going to turn 106 degrees counterclockwise. Also, when he lands he'll have a moustache and a hamburguer will be waiting for him
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09-26-2012, 04:13 PM
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I want to dive from the earth to space.
Lets see someone do that!
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09-26-2012, 04:22 PM
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Nothing especially interesting will happen, unless his suit fails and explodes.
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09-26-2012, 04:30 PM
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09-26-2012, 05:01 PM
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Bit of secondary school physics coming into play with terminal velocity, the speed he's falling won't matter but the height with the atmosphere etc may end up in his death.
Based on my very quick guess won't he be free-falling for like 11 minutes?
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09-26-2012, 05:08 PM
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He might get hungry on the way down.
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09-26-2012, 05:15 PM
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If he attached magnets to his jumpsuit and embedded the ground around the landing zone with magnets of the opposite polarity, he wouldn't need a parachute.
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