Skydiver Getting Ready To Launch

sometimes you have to go really high to see how small you are

 

head cam video. very cool.

http://gizmodo.com/5951725/first-head-cam-footage-from-daredevils-space-jump?tag=watch-this

wonder what he was thinking when he went into the spin?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/vid...baumgartner-skydive-space-video?newsfeed=true

link of entire fall.

 

Weed?

 

it's what the dude said before he jumped

 

:lol::lol: Like the pig in the Geico commercials....

 

I'd wondered what he said .. all I could make out was 'really high'.

 

he ended with "i'm going home now"

 

No, Steve Martin.

No, wait, that would be "you have to get really small to see how high you are."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Get_Small

 

why you trying to change dangerboy's own quote? I'm sure he doesn't need you telling him No...

 

Dude, you really need to get a life. Following me around like a gnat buzzing around my head is not the picture of mental health.

 

well someone neeeds to clean up the trash you throw around here

 

Well, if that's what makes you happy, go for it. Just don't get overly upset if I don't respond.

I presume you're doing it "pro-boner" as well?

 

While still a soft vacuum, he's well in the region where his blood would boil as well as fluid in his lungs if exposed to that thin of atmosphere.

My question is what it felt like to break mach 1 in a flexible craft (his suit). I may be wrong, but I believe it may be the first time a human has been exposed to >mach 1 in a non-rigid 'airframe' in anything other than hard vacuum. . .well. . . and lived.

 

Since his attitude was (presumably) head down, his helmet (nice and rigid) would have been what was exposed to the pressure waves which is what is "broken" in "breaking the sound barrier".

 

He jumped feet first.

 

Considering he wasn't doing a handstand on the platform, that would be a given. The point, though, is what his attitude was at the time he broke the sound barrier.