http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/sp...18a&ei=5087%0A
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thats sick. i'd like to think that i could do that, but i'd probably shit myself irl.
That guy is hard as FUCK.
I like him :)
no, i would not
he's going to cross the sound barrier, lol.
Balls of steel
Almost certainly not.
lol, exactly what i was thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by b-rabbit
wow great find
and no, theres no chance id ever do this, even if i got PAID 20 mill
Doesn't matter if I have the balls, what's important is that I have the brains...
nope, he's gonna die, balls though
between bravery and stupidity, a fine line there is..
Stupid imo, but hes got big balls fo sho.
I've got £10 even money with a mate that he dies. :)
profiting off death is -ev in karma imoQuote:
Originally Posted by dwarfman
OMFG!! I would puke.
This isn't right. He's floating up in a balloon, not going into orbit.Quote:
He will experience weightlessness.
hes floating pretty high...
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.
he's french lol
shouldn't he be retreating somewhere
American flag colors = red white and blueQuote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
UK flag= red white and blue
French flag = white
well, he'll be in freefall, so technically weightless
anyway, i'd need to regular skydive first, but i would do this
I would just like to second zxqv in his assertion that freefall results in experiencing weightlessness.
i think im higher than that guy right now
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warpe
No, I understand weightlessness, but I also understand English. The original article said:
It has since been edited/corrected to say:Quote:
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...
...with the following correction:Quote:
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.
Context is everything.Quote:
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.
maybe they were trying to say free falling?
Follow-up-up and away... or not...
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That's an expensive balloon...
lol, I was about to post the same thing. Better luck next time...
They should make this a ride at Six Flags and call it the "Super Cliffhanger"
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.