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Skydiver breaks sound barrier

Postby Homer » Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:08 pm

Did anyone else watch this live? Amazing footage. My heart was in my mouth when he went into a spin.

Jumped from 24 miles up & reached speeds of over 700mph.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/video/2 ... pace-video

NASA is interested in the data gained from this to look into possibilities of astronaut escape systems in future spacecraft.
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Re: Skydiver breaks sound barrier

Postby OGPhilly » Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:38 pm

Wow. I had heard about this the other day so I already knew about it and everything, but watching the video still had me a little tensed up.
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Re: Skydiver breaks sound barrier

Postby jimmyz » Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:47 pm

Wow!
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Re: Skydiver breaks sound barrier

Postby dontworrybehappy » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:12 pm

I saw preliminary estimates put him at 1.24 mach, about 814mph. Dat's movin, bro.
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Re: Skydiver breaks sound barrier

Postby The Comrade » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:52 pm

i heard conflicting reports, that he only reached like 730 miles per hour. is it confirmed that he broke it?
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Re: Skydiver breaks sound barrier

Postby Professor » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:55 pm

Better news than anything else we've had this month! Yup - he broke the sound barrier. By a lot!
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Re: Skydiver breaks sound barrier

Postby Spider » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:47 pm

Broke 3 of the 4 records he was going for, too. I was bummed he didn't get the record for longest freefall (that's still held by Joseph Kittinger, who did a similar jump back in the 60's), but damn, going supersonic in nothing but a spacesuit...wild stuff.
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Re: Skydiver breaks sound barrier

Postby Bill_in_Bethlehem » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:59 pm

looks like he maxed out at 730 mph (terminal velocity?)

pretty cool, and im glad to see that they didnt make him say "welcome to my world - the world of red bull" right before he jumped or right after he landed...
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Re: Skydiver breaks sound barrier

Postby Spider » Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:11 pm

He gets a slight bump in that cold air as well, since of course sound moves slower up there. Don't know if they were measuring against local conditions or against the mean.
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Re: Skydiver breaks sound barrier

Postby Showboat » Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:42 pm

I was hoping his 'shute didn't open to see the size of the crater he made. Oh well.
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