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...
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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?
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. ;)
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
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'
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!
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!
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.
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
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