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CjKit 
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Post subject: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
 Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 07:59 AM
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Post subject: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 08:30 AM
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Post subject: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 09:04 AM
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| just saw this on the news now! proper mentalist! |
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Post subject: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 09:11 AM
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| crazy antics... nearly choked on my porridge |
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CjKit
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Post subject: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 09:14 AM
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| He just needs to add some wings to that suit and he could be the first skydiver to circumnavigate the globe!! |
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Post subject: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 11:42 AM
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| Is this not the Red Bull funded project they've been talking about for a couple of years? |
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Post subject: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 11:42 AM
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| you'd have to be a little crazy to even think of attempting it. Good luck to him. |
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Post subject: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 12:08 PM
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| Just imagine how long it would take for him to float back down to earth if he bottled it and pulled his chute early. |
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Post subject: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 12:24 PM
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wow pretty epic!
Just reading it, when it said that "Many have sought to achieve the feat down the decades but all have failed." - Does that mean they died trying?? |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 12:25 PM
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227angrydonkeys wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
this dude did it from 31km in 1960!!
It is said that every morning Chuck Norris drinks a health shake that includes some of this guys toenail clippings.
Yeah there was a program about it or rather the us airforces various tests they conducted in the 50's and 60's.
They sent him up in a balloon in a pressure suit with a camera. his suit sprung a leak but he carried on up to the height anyway and jumped out, in the program had him saying he thought he was just stuck there as there was no sense of motion due to lack of atmosphere, he then turned and looked back at the balloon and he was going really really fast and then slammed into turbulance as he hit thicker atmosphere. Sounds fun  |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 01:47 PM
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I thought "Oh yeah, one of these" then realised that it was over 3 times as high.
Holy sh1t. |
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Trigger85
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Post subject: Re: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 02:48 PM
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CjKit wrote:
He just needs to add some wings to that suit and he could be the first skydiver to circumnavigate the globe!!
 that would be super insane. Ive never jumped out of a plane before, miht see if i can do this as my first!! 
tortyv wrote:
wow pretty epic!
Just reading it, when it said that "Many have sought to achieve the feat down the decades but all have failed." - Does that mean they died trying??
i think it may mean that they failed to get to the correct altitude or similar.
imagine the impact if he just took it like a man and didnt deploy his chute! aim for a flock of seagulls on Blackpool prom, teach em for stealing my KFC! |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 05:05 PM
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Post subject: Re: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 07:54 PM
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J_Smith wrote:
Is this not the Red Bull funded project they've been talking about for a couple of years?
Redbull Stratos project iirc, was like 2 years ago when a video of it cropped up on the tube.
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CjKit
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Skydiver to jump from edge of space!!!
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 08:01 PM
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First post: Nov 01, 2010
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| Very interesting. I hadn't thought about it from a scientific research perspective, but if you can develop suits and equipment that enable humans to evacuate capsules at those altitudes, then that puts a whole new perspective on what originally seemed like just another daredevil Red Bull stunt. |
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