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kmillz
United States1548 Posts
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archonOOid
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Proseat
Germany5113 Posts
When I was standing there on top of the world so humble, you are not thinking about breaking records. I was thinking about coming back alive. You do not want to die in front of your parents and all the people... I thought, "Please, God, don't let me down." | ||
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
I remember a comment from one of the guys who did it before was something like: Falling there in space with no wind you can't feel anything so for the first minute he was wondering if he was even falling at all. That would the the worst part for me. | ||
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jusTjoshin
United States66 Posts
On October 15 2012 06:18 Najda wrote: Isn't he the 3rd person to do this? I remember one person trying to break the sound barier a while ago and failed, then someone reproduced it and succeeded, so what's different about this guy? I remember a comment from one of the guys who did it before was something like: Falling there in space with no wind you can't feel anything so for the first minute he was wondering if he was even falling at all. That would the the worst part for me. I don't think he was really going for specifically breaking the sound barrier. | ||
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Hryul
Austria2609 Posts
On October 15 2012 06:07 th3_great wrote: yeah, confirmed at press conference, 5200ft I hate feet. it's about 1.6 km. I wonder if Kittinger opened his parachute later or if he had more air resistance. | ||
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Blackfish
Austria309 Posts
On October 15 2012 06:22 Hryul wrote: I hate feet. it's about 1.6 km. I wonder if Kittinger opened his parachute later or if he had more air resistance. Much more air resistance. he never got over 960 km/h... and Kittinger is a badass so yeah maybe he opened much later^^ | ||
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Derrida
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Prugelhugel
Austria637 Posts
On October 15 2012 06:23 Blackfish wrote: Much more air resistance. he never got over 960 km/h... and Kittinger is a badass so yeah maybe he opened much later^^ Maybe Felix opened that early because he knew that Kittinger, if he had broken his record, would have gone up there again and jumped without a parachute to make his record unbreakable.^^ | ||
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aqui
Germany1023 Posts
On October 15 2012 06:18 Najda wrote: Isn't he the 3rd person to do this? I remember one person trying to break the sound barier a while ago and failed, then someone reproduced it and succeeded, so what's different about this guy? I remember a comment from one of the guys who did it before was something like: Falling there in space with no wind you can't feel anything so for the first minute he was wondering if he was even falling at all. That would the the worst part for me. He was the first one. Kittinger, who was record holder for heighest jump before, jumped from 32km. While 39 km doesn't seem that mich more the additional 7 km are critical to achieving supersonic speed and very hard to get to with a balloon. ![[image loading]](http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/images/pressure_altitude.jpg) You can see that pressure begins to rise significantly at about 30 km, so the additional 9 km are exactly the height that alow him to accelerate. v=(2sa)^0.5, without drag Baumgartner would reach mach 1 at about 30-32km height. | ||
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HomeWorld
Romania903 Posts
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aqui
Germany1023 Posts
On October 15 2012 06:31 HomeWorld wrote: I wonder when everyone will start using the SI measurement units. Oh well, not very soon. Concidering that modern physics doesn't use them propably quite some time. | ||
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Proseat
Germany5113 Posts
Exit altitude: 128,100 ft Freefall time: 4 minutes 20 seconds Freefall distance: 119,846 ft ...you realize that he could not beat the record in duration of freefall. Joe Kittinger's record was 4 min 36 sec. After 4 min 20 sec (=260sec) Baumgartner had 8254 ft left to the ground. Even if you simply cross multiply (which is inaccurate because of differing air density), you see that he would have hit the ground in freefall at 4 min 38 sec (=278sec). Now that would certainly give him the record, but he'd also be dead. 128100ft / x = 119846ft / 260sec x = 260sec * 128100ft / 119846ft x = 278sec | ||
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igotmyown
United States4291 Posts
And miles are a more natural measurement. A mile is 1000 paces, see Roman soldiers. A kilometer is less intuitive to measure without instruments. | ||
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Excludos
Norway8058 Posts
On October 15 2012 07:01 igotmyown wrote: Doesn't he want more time in freefall for the record? And miles are a more natural measurement. A mile is 1000 paces, see Roman soldiers. A kilometer is less intuitive to measure without instruments. Also, using "burgers" as a measurement of weight is much more natural than "kilo". Personally I weight 97 burgers, or 204,7 hot dogs.. Natural doesn't mean intuitive. Also, lets be honest, you need instruments to measure miles and paces too. I'd be impressed if you managed to walk a mile and know exactly when to stop, without any aid at all. | ||
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foehammer
United States80 Posts
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aqui
Germany1023 Posts
On October 15 2012 07:07 Excludos wrote: Also, using "burgers" as a measurement of weight is much more natural than "kilo". Personally I weight 97 burgers, or 204,7 hot dogs.. Natural doesn't mean intuitive. Well actual natural units are not that great for every day usage^^. This discussion is almost as stupid as the Football vs Soccer thing. | ||
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Fuego
United Kingdom166 Posts
On October 15 2012 07:12 foehammer wrote: I feel like this video of james may going to the edge of space is appropriate! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJoMDq4AyLc&list=FLQPIg2AO7jGIJKXG4oSu9OA&index=67&feature=plpp_video And that was only 70,000ft! Imagine what it must have looked like for Felix at 128,000ft. | ||
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JiYan
United States3668 Posts
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Excludos
Norway8058 Posts
On October 15 2012 07:18 aqui wrote: Well actual natural units are not that great for every day usage^^. This discussion is almost as stupid as the Football vs Soccer thing. They both have in common that America is the odd one out  But this discussion has been had before, and will be had in the future. Lets not dive deeper into it in this thread ^-^ | ||
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He didn't seem that close to the ground
