Two men are independently attempting to free-fall from 120,000 feet from specialized hot air balloons. If they succeed in firstly getting up to that height, on the way down they will breach the sound barrier-over 700mph-and face uncharted territory. For Fournier, a French dare devil, "doing crazy **** for as long as possible is the only way to be." And this certainly fits that bill! If they succeed, a military may decide to develop technology in this area, creating our very own ODSTs! Take that, "Halo is not realistic" people! Link:Skydiving from the edge of space: can a human break the sound barrier? | Science | The Observer
I don't think that he will break the sound barrier, the terminal velocity of humans isn't that fast. Still pretty sweet though :: Note to self; next time, read the article before I post
that is cool but it would take forever to float down and really hard to know when to pull the choard at that speed.
Oh yeah, this guy is based in Saskatchewan. WOO. I heard about this before, but I never realized he was going to attempt it like this.
When people say, "You can't jump that high!" they're forgetting they're playing as a Spartan on a giant ring in space. I would love to see this, though.
I just realized that at that height, the air is thinner; so a human's terminal velocity would be faster. Just as long as he doesn't spontaneously combust; it should work.
They both have pressure suits and the balloon has an uber thin fabric thingy that'll expand with out breaking. He has a special sensor that lets him work it out. Normal Altimeters don't work.
Needs moar firefight. This looks like it will end very badly. I don't know why, but it will. Reasons range from instrumental failure to a giant alien warship shooting him down and then jumping into slipspace, separating him and his friend as he gets knocked out and wakes up hours later and has to piece together what the **** am I saying. whatever, it looks cool, but I'm skeptic on the success.
I saw a documentary about a guy in the military who did something like this. I forget what the experiment was for but I do know he went in a balloon to the edge of space and then jumped out, and survived.
In the article it talks about that guy. He's kinda the inspiration for the new guys trying to break his record. They intend to go 20 000 feet higher.
I read about this 3 years ago but it was just a dream and people have jumped high from balloons before I know they have one at the Smithsonian air and space museum but he didn't break the sound barrier I hope when they do it if they do it I can watch it live!