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Red Bull Stratos

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pSinatra

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I couldn't help think of this as he stood on the side of his capsule, ready to jump.

From someone who shits themself half way up a ladder...................congratulations!!!
leicsmac

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TBH when I saw him in the tumble I thought there would be serious trouble. Tumbling at that speed is going to produce g-forces enough to make someone black out...goodness only knows what would have happened then. Amazed that he managed to stabilise his flight so quickly and cleanly without problems.

MikeyT

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When it said his oxygen supply only had 5 minutes left I was mentally yelling at the screen for him to fall faster. haha

The Year Of The Fox

The Year Of The Fox

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I was really nervous watching that, especially when he started spinning. Really glad he landed safetly. Great achievement.

Same here. I put my hand over my eyes when he jumped!

Feared the worst when he started spinning.

What balls!

Collymore

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Press Conference on same link now.

Preliminary figures were that he reached 373m/s, 833mph or Mach 1.24.

I don't get the hype, the astronauts doing spacewalks are doing like 17k mph or something ridiculous. It's all "David Blane" if you ask me - dressed up. I mean, If he was to travel the speed of sound through thickish air, now that would be something seeing him smoke, but what he did meant that physics was always going to protect him. He's going to decelerate naturally and safely to 120mph anyway! Anyone of us could have done it! it's probably safer up at 120,000 than jumping out at 10,000. Granted there's no air, but people go scuba diving everyday! If you want to impress me nextime sunshine, then stick your head out of Concordes window! See what happens!!!

Deucalion

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Here's a question for the physicists...

What would've happened if he had pulled his shoot straight away? Would it have fell at the same rate as him and not deployed due to the thin air? Or would his extra mass make him fall towards the earth quicker than the chute regardless of resistance from air?

I suspect the latter but I don't know.

AKCJ

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I don't get the hype, the astronauts doing spacewalks are doing like 17k mph or something ridiculous. It's all "David Blane" if you ask me - dressed up. I mean, If he was to travel the speed of sound through thickish air, now that would be something seeing him smoke, but what he did meant that physics was always going to protect him. He's going to decelerate naturally and safely to 120mph anyway! Anyone of us could have done it! it's probably safer up at 120,000 than jumping out at 10,000. Granted there's no air, but people go scuba diving everyday! If you want to impress me nextime sunshine, then stick your head out of Concordes window! See what happens!!!

You do it then.

:P

Surely you can see the hype in the highest skydive in history?

anotherharboroughfox

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I don't get the hype, the astronauts doing spacewalks are doing like 17k mph or something ridiculous. It's all "David Blane" if you ask me - dressed up. I mean, If he was to travel the speed of sound through thickish air, now that would be something seeing him smoke, but what he did meant that physics was always going to protect him. He's going to decelerate naturally and safely to 120mph anyway! Anyone of us could have done it! it's probably safer up at 120,000 than jumping out at 10,000. Granted there's no air, but people go scuba diving everyday! If you want to impress me nextime sunshine, then stick your head out of Concordes window! See what happens!!!

Wow, ignorance at it's best.

yes the thin atmosphere will allow him to reach those speeds but the thin atmosphere makes it very dangerous, if he were to go into a spin (which he did for a while) he could blackout, he only countered it because he is one of, if not, the most experienced parachutist in the world. If you spin in that thinner atmosphere it is very hard to counter because there's no resistance, so your statement about it being safer up there is utterly ridiculous.

Also this provides valuable data for astronauts and high altitude pilots to be able to bail out if something goes wrong.

If anyone of us could've done it why haven't people been going that high and why did it take 5 years of training?

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I don't get the hype, the astronauts doing spacewalks are doing like 17k mph or something ridiculous. It's all "David Blane" if you ask me - dressed up. I mean, If he was to travel the speed of sound through thickish air, now that would be something seeing him smoke, but what he did meant that physics was always going to protect him. He's going to decelerate naturally and safely to 120mph anyway! Anyone of us could have done it! it's probably safer up at 120,000 than jumping out at 10,000. Granted there's no air, but people go scuba diving everyday! If you want to impress me nextime sunshine, then stick your head out of Concordes window! See what happens!!!

I don't think it's the fact he's unique in being capable to do it - it's the fact he's unique in actually trying to. lol

I honestly thought he'd died when he started spinning. Amazing viewing.

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