"Falling is easy - you just fall. Jumpin' takes will power. Landing is like falling - you just land."
Betty died jumping from a cliff into a shallow stream she thought was much deeper.
Posted on 05/22/2010 7:02:04 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
An Austrian daredevil is planning to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a free fall, without riding in a vehicle.
This summer in New Mexico, Felix Baumgartner hopes to make the highest, longest and fastest fall ever.
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"Falling is easy - you just fall. Jumpin' takes will power. Landing is like falling - you just land."
Betty died jumping from a cliff into a shallow stream she thought was much deeper.
I’ve always said that this is what we need to do with the Gitmo inmates: Modify the “Rods from God” program to use Islamic supremacists instead of tungsten rods, and use them on targets in Waziristan.
No.
Bbbbb.b.ut think of your heirs :)
Even so As soon as he hits the atmosphere he’s going to start decelerating and I think at a rapid rate.
I guess we’ll all have to wait and see if the guy actually can do it.
I pray he survives the attempt And can walk when he’s done.so many things can go wrong.
How fast IS the speed of smell?
If he breaks the sound barrier will he be able to hear himself scream?
Likewise I know that the atmosphere doesn't end - it just fades away. Compared to parachuting at 20k ft, he is “relatively” unhindered to a huge extent (again considering the audience I was addressing) but there will still be a terminal velocity where drag force equals acceleration due to gravity. IF he reaches his goal - his drag forces will include making a shock wave due to exceeding the local speed of sound.
I know that once a satellite gets down to the “upper fringe” of the atmosphere, the atmospheric drag (as little as it has been) increases rapidly due to the extremely high velocity, and all hell breaks loose!
(How much extra energy goes into the ionization effects? I once saw a space shuttle re-entry at about 3AM near Navasota TX. The orange trail persisted across the entire night sky, until well after the shuttle disappeared into the horizon's haze. WOW was that neat!)
A satellite may have been in really low LEO for weeks, but about 30 minutes after it “hits the fringe”, anything that hasn't vaporized is going to hit the ground (or water) somewhere!
Of course, at its terminal velocity...
Regards rotation - experienced skydivers clearly steer with their arms and hands, legs and feet, and general posture. As soon as there is enough speed to generate some noticeable drag (force), he can hopefully stabilize his fall position. I presume he will try to go headfirst to maximize his terminal velocity.
BUT at near 700+ MPH in the low air pressure environment he will be in - holy mackerel! If he DOES spin up - or something DOES “flutter” - or he tumbles - etc. - he may be pulverized. I totally HOPE not, but the possibility exists.
Best Wishes for good luck to him...
One of the great things about FR is that you never really know who that might be.
Best Wishes for good luck to him...
Agreed. However, he's a base jumper, and to my way of thinking, this may be a less hazardous jump than some he's already undertaken.
The math says he can do it. Experience says he can do it. I hope he does it, then charges $100 for the rest of us to give it a try. OK, maybe I’ll go to $105 but no more...then I’m out.
Yup, that is probably so.
BTW - Looking the the photo from the previous guy's jump taken moments after he left the ascent capsule... it is a mind-numbing "watch that first step - it's a doozy" kind of a situation!
BTW, since we never know who we are talking to... who are we talking to when we talk to ourselves about our spelling...
???
;^)
I leave for Benning in 6 weeks. Any advice? Will it be hot? Ha!
The same guy I ask where I left my car keys.
He's pretty smart, but I only know him by his screen name. I've always thought this little ditty appropriate to this question, and to several others: Borges and I.
My keys are always in my front right pants pocket... except when they’re not and THEN something is seriously wrong.
THANKS for the link! Someone I know would like to meet someone he knows! You know anyone who would like to meet them too?
Also class of ‘98 I see - VINTAGE STOCK
BTW I had not really heard of this guy Mitch Daniels until this posting today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2528904/posts
and the WS article accompanying. I am impressed!
;^)
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