Man to attempt skydive from 40km above the earth

[Son Goku]

:wtf:

yea.... good idea..... especially going through the atmosphere.... :bleh:







:lol:

Lets not even go there. Besides being in free fall until one has got enough gravitational pull on them, and needing enough air, there's a definite re-entry angle one needs to make. If one re-enters too shallow, then one would bounce off the atmosphere and back into space. Too steep, and one burns up on re-entry. As I understand it, the margin of error for re-entry is extremely small, which is in part why most meteors never reach the ground...

[nemecb]

I'm pretty sure that you would burn up regardless. The necessary angle of re-entry for the shuttle is very small, but that's because it has the infamous heat shield tiles on the bottom to take the brunt of the heat. That's why there's always a comm dropout during re-entry - the extreme heat interferes with radio signals. So unless you had some sort of personal heat shield you'd burn up in about half a second regardless of how you hit the atmosphere.:firedevil

[ViN86]

Oh I know, that would be some serious speed. He would get both the record for the highest jump and the fastest.

actually i was being sarcastic, because he would be burnt to ashes in the atmosphere like nemecb says, heh.

I'm pretty sure that you would burn up regardless. The necessary angle of re-entry for the shuttle is very small, but that's because it has the infamous heat shield tiles on the bottom to take the brunt of the heat. That's why there's always a comm dropout during re-entry - the extreme heat interferes with radio signals. So unless you had some sort of personal heat shield you'd burn up in about half a second regardless of how you hit the atmosphere.:firedevil

[tieros]

My dad knew Kittinger, and was in Alamogordo with him during the jumps. He did cause a sonic boom on the last jump, which apparently was both unexpected and a lot louder than they thought possible :D

The funniest stories he told us from the projects going on there in the late 50's and early 60's were the rocket sled tests. When testing the effects of rapid deceleration, the test pilot's faces tended to swell up and fill their helmets. When they finally got the helmet off, their entire head was just one big swolen bruise :D

[nemecb]

Note to self: The next time someone is looking for volunteers for rocket sled tests, don't!:D