Felix Baumgartner skydive underway (updated)

Uncle Wally One Ball said:
I feared the worst when he was going ass over tit. Anyone else feel there nuts go tight when he leaned over before letting go?

If I had nuts then I'm sure I'd have felt that too. The spinning stuff freaked me out, I was sure he was a goner.

I really felt for his family having to watch that. Really impressive staff though and I 'm glad I had the chance to watch it live.
 
Ok so the guy reached a fantastic speed at high altitude. He did so because the air is very thin so there is less resistance on him.Thats why planes fly at high altitude . . . .to save fuel.
As soon as he got to about 10,000 ft he would have slowed to 125mph which is the fastest he can fall thru the air. its called terminal velocity.
If you are a 50 ton tank or a 1 ounce conker you will fall at 125mph.
The guy is still bonkers tho and id like to get drunk with him
 
Andy Dale said:
Ok so the guy reached a fantastic speed at high altitude. He did so because the air is very thin so there is less resistance on him.Thats why planes fly at high altitude . . . .to save fuel.
As soon as he got to about 10,000 ft he would have slowed to 125mph which is the fastest he can fall thru the air. its called terminal velocity.
If you are a 50 ton tank or a 1 ounce conker you will fall at 125mph.

The guy is still bonkers tho and id like to get drunk with him

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Andy Dale said:
Ok so the guy reached a fantastic speed at high altitude. He did so because the air is very thin so there is less resistance on him.Thats why planes fly at high altitude . . . .to save fuel.
As soon as he got to about 10,000 ft he would have slowed to 125mph which is the fastest he can fall thru the air. its called terminal velocity.
If you are a 50 ton tank or a 1 ounce conker you will fall at 125mph.
The guy is still bonkers tho and id like to get drunk with him

Fuck sake. In a vaccum objects will fall at the same speed no matter their mass but in the real world mass matters so of course a bloody tank and concker wouldn't fall at the same speed.
 
RandomJ said:
Andy Dale said:
Ok so the guy reached a fantastic speed at high altitude. He did so because the air is very thin so there is less resistance on him.Thats why planes fly at high altitude . . . .to save fuel.
As soon as he got to about 10,000 ft he would have slowed to 125mph which is the fastest he can fall thru the air. its called terminal velocity.
If you are a 50 ton tank or a 1 ounce conker you will fall at 125mph.
The guy is still bonkers tho and id like to get drunk with him

Fuck sake. In a vaccum objects will fall at the same speed no matter their mass but in the real world mass matters so of course a bloody tank and concker wouldn't fall at the same speed.
So if you open the plane door at 10000 feet, and drop a feather out, it won't fall at 125mph then ?
 
cleavers said:
RandomJ said:
Andy Dale said:
Ok so the guy reached a fantastic speed at high altitude. He did so because the air is very thin so there is less resistance on him.Thats why planes fly at high altitude . . . .to save fuel.
As soon as he got to about 10,000 ft he would have slowed to 125mph which is the fastest he can fall thru the air. its called terminal velocity.
If you are a 50 ton tank or a 1 ounce conker you will fall at 125mph.
The guy is still bonkers tho and id like to get drunk with him

Fuck sake. In a vaccum objects will fall at the same speed no matter their mass but in the real world mass matters so of course a bloody tank and concker wouldn't fall at the same speed.
So if you open the plane door at 10000 feet, and drop a feather out, it won't fall at 125mph then ?

If you opened a plane door at 10000ft, you'd just get sucked off.. so the feather would be irrelevant.
 
blumoonrisen said:
cleavers said:
RandomJ said:
Fuck sake. In a vaccum objects will fall at the same speed no matter their mass but in the real world mass matters so of course a bloody tank and concker wouldn't fall at the same speed.
So if you open the plane door at 10000 feet, and drop a feather out, it won't fall at 125mph then ?

If you opened a plane door at 10000ft, you'd just get sucked off.. so the feather would be irrelevant.

Might just open the door of the plane on my next flight now you've told me that.

Haven't been sucked off in months.
 

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