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Post subject: Space Jump
 Posted: Mar 18, 2010 - 12:36 AM
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Remember this?....We even discussed the possibility of this
on this BBS awhile back.....
Well, someone is about to prove it can be done, or probably die 
His name?...................Felix
A Supersonic Jump, From 23 Miles in the Air
Ordinarily, Felix Baumgartner would not need a lot of practice in the science of falling.
He has jumped off two of the tallest buildings in the world, as well as the statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro (a 95-foot leap for which he claimed a low-altitude record for parachuting). He has sky-dived across the English Channel. He once plunged into the black void of a 623-foot-deep cave, which he formerly considered the most difficult jump of his career.
But now Fearless Felix, as his fans call him, has something more difficult on the agenda: jumping from a helium balloon in the stratosphere at least 120,000 feet above Earth. Within about half a minute, he figures, he would be going 690 miles per hour and become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound. After a free fall lasting five and a half minutes, his parachute would open and land him about 23 miles below the balloon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/scien ... .html?8dpc
IMO this is very interesting, the big question is, will he actually
reach/break the speed of sound in his fall and will he survive it...
In all honesty, it isn't quite what Kirk & co pulled off in Star Trek.
The human body "might" survive the sound barrier, but IMO
it could never survive re-entry........the plasma you know 
This is going to be very interesting and I want to keep up.
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Posted: Mar 18, 2010 - 01:19 AM
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A little research(which I am not know for)
on the guy who currently hold the record jump...
Remember, this was over 50 yrs ago, before PC's and such...
Kittinger's first high-altitude jump came on 16 November 1959 when he bailed out of the Excelsior I balloon at a height of 76,000 ft (23,165 m) over the New Mexico desert. He carried a small parachute intended to open after Kittinger had fallen for 16 seconds. This small chute would stabilize his decent and prevent Kittinger from going into a flat spin. However, a malfunction in the parachute caused it to open after just two seconds into his fall and wrap around Kittinger's neck. As he began to spiral uncontrollably, Kittinger quickly became unconscious and hurtled toward the Earth while tumbling at a rate of 120 revolutions per minute. Thankfully, his emergency parachute worked as designed and opened automatically once Kittinger had fallen to 10,000 ft (3,050 m). The parachute slowed Kittinger's rate of descent and saved his life.
Just three weeks after his nearly fatal close call, Kittinger made his next jump from the Excelsior II on 11 December 1959. Kittinger piloted the balloon to 74,700 ft (22,770 m) before he stepped out of the gondola on his trip back to Earth. His record free-fall lasted 55,000 ft (16,765 m) before Kittinger pulled his ripcord and his parachute deployed for a safe landing. The successful jump earned Joseph Kittinger the Leo Stevens parachute medal.
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/ae ... 0243.shtml
While I truly hope Felix succeeds, it will on no way diminish
the balls of steel shown by Mr. Kittinger |
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Posted: Mar 18, 2010 - 06:00 AM
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Best of Luck Felix....
And that scene of those three jumping down like that was INSANE! |
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Posted: Mar 19, 2010 - 12:53 PM
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| Gornman wrote: | A little research(which I am not know for)
on the guy who currently hold the record jump...
Remember, this was over 50 yrs ago, before PC's and such...
Kittinger's first high-altitude jump came on 16 November 1959 when he bailed out of the Excelsior I balloon at a height of 76,000 ft (23,165 m) over the New Mexico desert. He carried a small parachute intended to open after Kittinger had fallen for 16 seconds. This small chute would stabilize his decent and prevent Kittinger from going into a flat spin. However, a malfunction in the parachute caused it to open after just two seconds into his fall and wrap around Kittinger's neck. As he began to spiral uncontrollably, Kittinger quickly became unconscious and hurtled toward the Earth while tumbling at a rate of 120 revolutions per minute. Thankfully, his emergency parachute worked as designed and opened automatically once Kittinger had fallen to 10,000 ft (3,050 m). The parachute slowed Kittinger's rate of descent and saved his life.
Just three weeks after his nearly fatal close call, Kittinger made his next jump from the Excelsior II on 11 December 1959. Kittinger piloted the balloon to 74,700 ft (22,770 m) before he stepped out of the gondola on his trip back to Earth. His record free-fall lasted 55,000 ft (16,765 m) before Kittinger pulled his ripcord and his parachute deployed for a safe landing. The successful jump earned Joseph Kittinger the Leo Stevens parachute medal.
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/ae ... 0243.shtml
While I truly hope Felix succeeds, it will on no way diminish
the balls of steel shown by Mr. Kittinger |
I thought this was a topic about a DEVO song. |
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