Space Diving

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w00t
2 years ago
Fail.
2 years ago
Thats amazing... absolutely unreal!
2 years ago
Ok, this dude didn't burn up on re-entry nor reach terminal velocity... why??
2 years ago
he did reach terminal velocity....which means he's way to slow to "burn up"
2 years ago
the reason a space ship gets hot is because it re-enters the earth atmosphere traveling at more than 500 mph...

When you jump out of a balloon you start at 0 mph...and as you come down the air and windresistance slows you down...

Terminal velocity is when you can't accelerate any more because the wind resistance slows you down...for a skydiver that speed is around 120 mph

I've also heard of terminal velocity as the speed in which you die no matter what you hit...ie...water, etc... (however I think this is a false definition)

The max height for jumping into water is 200 ft...any higher and it's like jumping into a slab of concrete...at 150 u'll without a doubt break bones, but you'll still survive...at 200...you're basically guaranteed to be dead...
2 years ago
To correct you, Captain Joe Kittinger reached 700mph. And the calculation is 32.3Ft/s2, Or 9.8m/s2. The 2 is seconds sqared meaning. First second of jumping out is 32.3ft/s and the next second is 64.6ft/s and so on. The other reason why he didn't burn up is there is not enough mass. A little physics for you.
2 years ago
Awesome
2 years ago
1st H.A.L.O. jump sweeeeeet!
2 years ago
Kittinger breaks all types of records, is A P.O.W. from 'Nam and just a squadron named after him..Hoorah Sir!!you have all my respect
2 years ago
Can someone tell me who sings this song? please... this vid is awesome.. very cool.....Area 51 you rock !
2 years ago
i wonder how long the free fall was?
2 years ago
oh, 4 and 1/2 minutes. amazing
2 years ago
My GOD!! Are you so brain fried that you can't concentrate on one thing for seven minutes? It says at the end of the video. Our society will fall and Islam will mop up whatever is left after we sell out because of people EXACTLY LIKE YOU>> Think about it.
2 years ago
can anyone tell me who the music is by?
2 years ago
^ yeah, anyone knows the artist or the title? ...
2 years ago
Boards Of Canada-artist....I think
2 years ago
That's so cool. I want to do that.
2 years ago
its fake, space doesn't exist
2 years ago
"To boldly go where no man has gone before."
"Space: The Final Frontier!"
and finally..... It's not the fall that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the bottom that really knocks the crap out of you.
2 years ago
The song is a combination on UNKLE's "In A State" and Moby's "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters". The narration at the beginning is by John Malkovich from the movie "Alive".
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-Defence-Never-Reconstructed-Bonus/dp/samples/B000HIP4FG/ref=dp_tracks_all_2/203-4572304-5294350?ie=UTF8
2 years ago
Cool... thanks!!
2 years ago
ty.told ya i wasn't sure.lol
2 years ago
oh man what i would give for 4 1/2 minutes of free fall!

also it's highly unlikely that he was able to go supersonic, at 18,000 ft the speed of sound is around 712 mph, and even more so the sound barrier has an enormous amount of drag, so it also acts almost as a physical barrier.
2 years ago
How bout shoving that F up your ass hole and through your prostate so you can no longer breed or sleep with women? Then you dont have to worry about having a life and can post that you're first on all the videos?
2 years ago
Speaking of geniuses: you forgot to click the reply button so your brilliant retort would be in context and make sense.
2 years ago
now thats an "insult"
2 years ago
You just made the Baby Jezuz cry; ;
2 years ago
Loved the uplifting introduction speech. I could only just imagine taking that ride up there and feeling emotions only a handful of people had felt at that time in history, the solitude, the spectacular view of pure beauty- unbeknownst to alot of people, and a new perspective of all that is our short lives here on Earth. Realising that all that is going on in the world and that has happened is on such a miniscule planet which we take for granted (The Pale Blue Dot - great video, watch it!). The tranquility of what should be on the surface is what you would experience up there, i could imagine the endorphins that were released from such a majectic experience; the breathtaking jump and coming back down to earth in all aspects of 'reality'. Thanks Glumbert for such a nice video. ;)
2 years ago
and the fact that you almost lose your hand from pressurized swelling, because the glove wasn't on right. much less falling at mach 0.9 betcha thats a head rush
2 years ago
The man was one of the 'unsung' heroes of the cold war. He volunteered for this experiment, so that there would be some data, on whether or not, a pilot could survive an ejection from a plane, that was under developement at the time, at maximum operational altitude. It was the Y-12 (CIA designation), later designated the RS-71, until a president had a ' brain- fart'
2 years ago
occasionally, the internet can be amazing by giving you access to something visual that you never would have seen, historical or not. i would have been amazed to have just read about something like that. but now i get to see it. what an unbelievable treat!
2 years ago
That was actually a H.A.H.O. jump, not to be confused with H.A.L.O. Had this dude attempted a low opening at 600 mph, he wouldn't live to tell the story. Either way, this dude is my hero!

p.s. HAHO (high altitude high opening)
2 years ago
That is the most incredible act I have ever seen. WOW.
1 year ago
You are correct. In the upper atmospheres where the air is thinner, he fell faster. The speed of his free fall slowed with each new atmospheric level he entered. The lowest atmosphere tops out at about 15,000 FT ASL and will have the thinkest air, therfore the slowest terminal velocity.
2 years ago
some claim now that he broke the sound barrier on his way down. . .I personally doubt it as the sound barrier is not at a static speed but is a function of air density. whereas he might have actually gone faster on his way down than the mean speed of sound at sea level, he would have done so at such an altitude than he was still below mach 1. by the time he had fallen enough his speed had either slowed down due to the atmospheric mU or he had deployed his chute
2 years ago
He would have achieved that if his chute failed to open. Wow... wouldnt that be amazing?
2 years ago
still one of the most amazing feats I think anyone has ever done
2 years ago
Did anyone see that badass helicopter in the end. Wow it looked like a redneck duct taped a few beer cans together and put some rotors on em. YeeeHAW
2 years ago
Given the proper prep work, I'd love to do that!

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