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Daredevil to Plunge From Outer Space in Supersonic Suit (update from March)
FOX NEWS ^
| 04/11/10
| John R. Quain
Posted on 04/11/2010 1:38:56 PM PDT by Doogle
Skydiving is dangerous. Skydiving from a plane in outer space can kill you, with temperatures that can freeze a body and pressure that can boil blood. To survive his 23-mile plunge from the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner will depend on a truly unique new spacesuit.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: Hobbies; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: felixbaumgartner; josephkittinger; kittinger; space; spacediving; spacejump
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Update from March thread
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posted on
04/11/2010 1:38:57 PM PDT
by
Doogle
To: Doogle
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posted on
04/11/2010 1:40:07 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: Doogle
Perhaps the current occupant of the Oval Orifice might find an adventure like this stimulating.
Appeal to his colossal ego!
Nah. Forget it. He's just a communist-muslim coward!
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posted on
04/11/2010 1:42:07 PM PDT
by
IbJensen
((Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
To: IbJensen
he’s over his head now........
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posted on
04/11/2010 1:43:05 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: Doogle
What date is he set to jump? This ought to be very interesting.......
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posted on
04/11/2010 1:44:50 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Where the hell can I get a court injunction to keep my own government out of my life?!?)
To: Doogle; KevinDavis
Didn’t they cut a scene out of a Star Trek film because it was ‘too much’ where this was done?
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posted on
04/11/2010 1:47:31 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Entitlement Zombies will become real zombies when the money runs out)
To: Doogle
If they miscalculate he could fall up.
To: Viking2002
This ought to be very interesting.......
Ground support will be supplied with spatulas.......
To: Viking2002
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posted on
04/11/2010 1:53:28 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: Doogle
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posted on
04/11/2010 1:55:05 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: Hot Tabasco
ROTFLMAO
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posted on
04/11/2010 1:57:01 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Where the hell can I get a court injunction to keep my own government out of my life?!?)
To: Doogle
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posted on
04/11/2010 1:59:03 PM PDT
by
Hunton Peck
(America's enemies have a friend in the White House)
To: Hot Tabasco
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posted on
04/11/2010 1:59:35 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: Hunton Peck
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posted on
04/11/2010 2:01:14 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
04/11/2010 2:05:52 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: NormsRevenge
I stand corrected. On what date does 'Splat' Baumgartner submit his entry for the 2010 Darwin Award?
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posted on
04/11/2010 2:07:26 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Where the hell can I get a court injunction to keep my own government out of my life?!?)
To: Doogle
Current record holder Colonel Joseph Kittinger USAF August 16, 1960, jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet
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posted on
04/11/2010 2:07:47 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(It ain't about Black... It ain't about White...It's about a Red...Trying to take our rights!)
To: IbJensen
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posted on
04/11/2010 2:20:19 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: NormsRevenge
23 miles is not “Outer Space”.
He should take a Redstone straight up 107 miles and step out at the apex.
To: tophat9000
"...on
August 27, 1960...U.S. Air Force captain, Joseph Kittinger, Jr., set a world record for the highest balloon ascent, reaching an altitude of 102,800 feet (31,333 meters) in the Excelsior III. At the end of his ascent, he jumped out of his gondola and parachuted to the ground. That descent set another record for the longest parachute freefall—four minutes and 36 seconds—before his main parachute opened at 18,000 feet (5,486 meters). During his descent, he reached speeds of up to 614 miles per hour (1,149 kilometers per hour), approaching the speed of sound without an aircraft or space vehicle. He fell through air temperatures as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 degrees Celsius)."
Only took fifty years to find another guy willing to risk it.
And, like Yeager, Kittinger essentially took that risk for free.
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posted on
04/11/2010 2:26:41 PM PDT
by
norton
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