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On October 10 2012 03:09 TheDraken wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2012 03:05 Uvantak wrote:On October 10 2012 03:02 DwD wrote: Does he need to survive to claim the record? Else this would be so easy to break all the time heh. "Just" need to be willing to die -_- Dunno if easy, you need the bigass balloon after all, and all the helium to make it fly and if it's over american airspace there's probably 4 months of FAA paperwork so we don't end up launching a missile at him on the way down.
lol, that would make for quite a show
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On October 10 2012 01:48 Chemist wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2012 01:36 NeMeSiS3 wrote:On October 10 2012 01:02 Chemist wrote:On October 10 2012 00:36 sharkie wrote: So people starve in the world and we waste millions on this ****?
Red Bull is really awesome. Well they "wasted" 50millions on this? Let's see how much they wasted on the elections in US right now, or on war.... This actually is relevant to science so it's not a waste at all.... -.- Well read again, that's why i wrote "wasted " not wasted ;-) That's why you wrote... ... wasted not... wasted?
Oh I see, I wasn't commenting on you I was agree with you.
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Whoa..thats such a high jump you might even have the time to get bored on the way down "are we there yet?"
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Whew, saw this in the sidebar and was like wtf live suicide thread?
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On October 09 2012 20:43 ulfryc wrote:Show nested quote +On October 09 2012 20:27 [Agony]x90 wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, he should eventually reach a point where his velocity no longer increases. Once that point hits, it'll just be a long trip of shit ton of friction, but no falling sensation (i think) lol. Would be a cool thing to try i think haha. Might have to stay up for this one. Yup at some point air restistance and earth gravity will equal out, and he will no longer accelerate. But I'm to lazy to calculate that now. Can probably be found somewhere on the internet  . woflram alpha to the rescue http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=terminal velocity of human being
56m/s is the terminal velocity of a human being so 125 mph
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On October 10 2012 06:07 huStl.e wrote:Show nested quote +On October 09 2012 20:43 ulfryc wrote:On October 09 2012 20:27 [Agony]x90 wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, he should eventually reach a point where his velocity no longer increases. Once that point hits, it'll just be a long trip of shit ton of friction, but no falling sensation (i think) lol. Would be a cool thing to try i think haha. Might have to stay up for this one. Yup at some point air restistance and earth gravity will equal out, and he will no longer accelerate. But I'm to lazy to calculate that now. Can probably be found somewhere on the internet  . woflram alpha to the rescue http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=terminal velocity of human being56m/s is the terminal velocity of a human being so 125 mph That's at 1 atmosphere, it doesn't apply for a jump from this altitude. For instance, Joseph Kittinger got to over 600mph.
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Was talking about this today with a network guy, there is going to be a 20 min delay on the stream. Incase he ends up a smear.
Takes some serious testicular fortitude to even think of doing this, I'd buy him a pint :D
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As someone who has jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.......this man has balls the size and consistency of bowling balls.
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On October 10 2012 08:02 YODA_ wrote: As someone who has jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.......this man has balls the size and consistency of bowling balls.
No kidding. If I were to do this, my mind would be haunting me with phrases like "There's a fine line between being very brave and very stupid."
I don't think I could go through with it mainly because of my family.
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Can't remember where I read this, but I think the biggest danger is going into an uncontrolled spin? Vaguely remember something about a high rotation making it unsafe to depoly a parachute and probably messing with blood flow due to G-force.
Otherwise, people reach terminal velocity pretty quick so shouldn't really make a difference height wise.
This still sounds god damn cool, and probably super fun.
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On October 10 2012 06:21 Detri wrote: Was talking about this today with a network guy, there is going to be a 20 min delay on the stream. Incase he ends up a smear.
Takes some serious testicular fortitude to even think of doing this, I'd buy him a pint :D
of course, nothing in the world is live nowadays
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On October 10 2012 04:19 ownyah wrote: Wait has this happened already or when exactly is it? No it was canceled due to problems with the weather (wind). Next possible attempt will be Thursday 11th.
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Lets see what happens, 50 buck he dies..
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Oooo its finally happening, i feel like its taken them a whole year to get to this point
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On October 09 2012 20:22 VegetarianPeaceLove wrote:Show nested quote +On October 09 2012 20:19 green.at wrote:On October 09 2012 20:17 VegetarianPeaceLove wrote: Is it possible he could light up? Or do they not allow smoking before the event. I feel like nice cig could really relax you for something like theis, whether yay or nay or back and fro I doubt he is a smoking kinda guy ^^ I never thought of that, not even cigs though, maybe some pot could really help him out with this. I hope he burns
says mr vegetarianpeacelove lol
ok I didn't expect that suit. This is so disappointing 
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On October 10 2012 04:35 Tewks44 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2012 03:09 TheDraken wrote:On October 10 2012 03:05 Uvantak wrote:On October 10 2012 03:02 DwD wrote: Does he need to survive to claim the record? Else this would be so easy to break all the time heh. "Just" need to be willing to die -_- Dunno if easy, you need the bigass balloon after all, and all the helium to make it fly and if it's over american airspace there's probably 4 months of FAA paperwork so we don't end up launching a missile at him on the way down. lol, that would make for quite a show
I would be impressed if radar detection could even pick him up considering how small he is.
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On October 13 2012 03:48 JieXian wrote:Show nested quote +On October 09 2012 20:22 VegetarianPeaceLove wrote:On October 09 2012 20:19 green.at wrote:On October 09 2012 20:17 VegetarianPeaceLove wrote: Is it possible he could light up? Or do they not allow smoking before the event. I feel like nice cig could really relax you for something like theis, whether yay or nay or back and fro I doubt he is a smoking kinda guy ^^ I never thought of that, not even cigs though, maybe some pot could really help him out with this. I hope he burns says mr vegetarianpeacelove lol ok I didn't expect that suit. This is so disappointing 
Considering its prolly freezing cold up there and not enough oxygen to breathe Id say the suit is kind of necessary for him to be alive and stuff
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On October 13 2012 03:57 antelope591 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 13 2012 03:48 JieXian wrote:On October 09 2012 20:22 VegetarianPeaceLove wrote:On October 09 2012 20:19 green.at wrote:On October 09 2012 20:17 VegetarianPeaceLove wrote: Is it possible he could light up? Or do they not allow smoking before the event. I feel like nice cig could really relax you for something like theis, whether yay or nay or back and fro I doubt he is a smoking kinda guy ^^ I never thought of that, not even cigs though, maybe some pot could really help him out with this. I hope he burns says mr vegetarianpeacelove lol ok I didn't expect that suit. This is so disappointing  Considering its prolly freezing cold up there and not enough oxygen to breathe Id say the suit is kind of necessary for him to be alive and stuff INterestingly it's not that cold up there. Certainly a survivable temperature. It gets way colder on the way down though, for him coldest about half way down.
It's the lack of pressure and oxygen that would instantly kill him.
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