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Warpe
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05-24-2008, 05:13 PM
Post subject: Would you have the balls?
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b-rabbit
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thats sick. i'd like to think that i could do that, but i'd probably shit myself irl.
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do the right thing.
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d0zer
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That guy is hard as FUCK.
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no, i would not
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he's going to cross the sound barrier, lol.
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irishiain
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Almost certainly not.
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will641
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Originally Posted by b-rabbit
thats sick. i'd like to think that i could do that, but i'd probably shit myself irl.
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lol, exactly what i was thinking.
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nutsinho
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wow great find
and no, theres no chance id ever do this, even if i got PAID 20 mill
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Doesn't matter if I have the balls, what's important is that I have the brains...
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bigred
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nope, he's gonna die, balls though
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Stupid imo, but hes got big balls fo sho.
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I've got £10 even money with a mate that he dies.
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bigred
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I've got £10 even money with a mate that he dies. |
profiting off death is -ev in karma imo
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OMFG!! I would puke.
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Warpe
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He will experience weightlessness.
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This isn't right. He's floating up in a balloon, not going into orbit.
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hes floating pretty high...
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Warpe
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How high he is has nothing to do with it. He's planning on jumping out of the capsule and falling back to Earth, ergo he's not weightless. He'd need to be in orbit to experience weightlessness.
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he's french lol
shouldn't he be retreating somewhere
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bigred
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Originally Posted by spoonitnow
he's french lol
shouldn't he be retreating somewhere
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well, he'll be in freefall, so technically weightless
anyway, i'd need to regular skydive first, but i would do this
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I would just like to second zxqv in his assertion that freefall results in experiencing weightlessness.
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i think im higher than that guy right now
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Originally Posted by Warpe
How high he is has nothing to do with it. He's planning on jumping out of the capsule and falling back to Earth, ergo he's not weightless. He'd need to be in orbit to experience weightlessness.
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apparently sir, you do not understand why people experience weightlessness. Being in space does not make you weightless, being in a decaying orbit makes you experience weightlessness, also being at terminal velocity makes you experience weightlessness. If he survives the threshold to terminal velocity (IE crossing the sound barrier) he will be weightless.
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The older I get, the more I start wondering; Just what in the hell is going on here? 
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Warpe
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No, I understand weightlessness, but I also understand English. The original article said:
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He intends to climb into the pressurized gondola of the 650-foot balloon, which resembles a giant jellyfish, and make a two-hour journey to 130,000 feet. At that altitude, almost 25 miles up, Fournier will see both the blackness of space and the curvature of the earth. He will experience weightlessness.
Then he plans to step out of the capsule...
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It has since been edited/corrected to say:
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He intends to climb into the pressurized gondola of the 650-foot balloon, which resembles a giant jellyfish, and make a two-hour journey to 130,000 feet. At that altitude, almost 25 miles up, Fournier will see both the blackness of space and the curvature of the earth.
Then he plans to step out of the capsule, wearing only a special space suit and a parachute, and plunge in a mere 15 minutes, experiencing weightlessness along the way.
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...with the following correction:
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Correction: May 26, 2008
An earlier version of this article misstated the time in which a high-altitude parachutist would experience weightlessness. It is experienced during the descent, not while in the balloon's gondola.
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Context is everything.
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will641
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maybe they were trying to say free falling?
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ChrisBCritter
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Follow-up-up and away... or not...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl.../National/home
That's an expensive balloon...
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Hey knucklehead! Bonk!
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Warpe
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lol, I was about to post the same thing. Better luck next time...
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They should make this a ride at Six Flags and call it the "Super Cliffhanger"
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Ya, I'd feel real confident nothing would happen to my suit on the way down...they can't even get the balloons off the ground without something getting f'ed up.
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