👤ulrichkautz🕑13y🔼110🗨️51

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Does anyone know the specification of what makes the difference between a person free falling and a person in a vehicle free falling?

I know this seems specific, but lets say for example the space suit is completely ridged, and made out of metal, would he still qualify?

I'm basically trying to figure out exactly what the point of gear is that moves it from skydive to vehicular fall.

👤wtvanhest🕑13y🔼0🗨️0

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Not a complete success: One high-altitude balloon record is ...This discrepancy is likely caused by the fact that Baumgartner achieved significantly higher speeds than Kittinger, and so the free fall phase ended quicker than expected.

This discrepancy is likely caused by Felix showing great respect for Joe by allowing him to keep one record.

👤Mc_Big_G🕑13y🔼0🗨️0

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Can anyone help me transcribe the altitude, time, and velocity data from the bbc coverage of this jump? I'm planning on creating an animated JavaScript infographic using d3. I'm starting at the top of his jump and planning on trying to sample at 5 sec intervals by pausing the video and writing down the data. If anyone wants to start at the bottom of the freefall and work up, that would be great. My main goal is to get the freefall data -- after the chute deploys is not as important.

I'll post it here as csv once its transcribed.

EDIT: This is taking forever; I'm going to use Mechanical Turk. I'll post here when done.

👤eric_bullington🕑13y🔼0🗨️0

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Although he haven't broke longest free-fall by time, he broke the record of longest free-fall by distance. Baumgartner opened parachute after 36 529 meters[1] of free fall, breaking the record of Yevgeni Andreyev from 1962 by something over eleven kilometers (24 500m)[2].

I yet have to see an article reporting on this. I only stumbled upon this information when browsing related wikipedia articles yesterday while watching the quite boring ascent.

1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9607604/Skydiver-Fe...

2. http://www.fai.org/record-parachuting category Freefall distance

NOTE: While searching for some reliable source I've found that he only broke his own record today, and that the Soviet record was broken in July. That's why no article mentions it... I'll leave this comment here as it is still interesting.

👤rplnt🕑13y🔼0🗨️0

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They didn't try very hard to show a realistic earth curvature. sigh Now every non-geek thinks he actually jumped from as high as, say, the ISS, instead of 10% of that.

I've already seen the non-specialized press pointing out how clearly the earth curvature is visible in the pictures - but it's highly exaggerated by a fish-eye lens!

👤Luc🕑13y🔼0🗨️0

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I can't imagine how hard it would be to force myself to take that one step between life and death. Bravo!
👤jaipilot747🕑13y🔼0🗨️0

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One small step for mankind, one giant leap for Felix.
👤easymovet🕑13y🔼0🗨️0

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Are these photos artificially curved / lens-angled (perhaps intentionally deceptive?), making the Earth appear more curved and the altitude appear higher than it would to a human observer at the camera's position?

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/felix- baumgartner-jumps-from-red-bull-stratos-balloon-640x353.jpg

👤sadga🕑13y🔼0🗨️0

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Does anyone know what (will/has) happen(ed) to the pod? Presumably at some altitude, the helium balloon will expand to the point of "popping", and down comes the pod--or am I mistaken?

Assuming the pod falls down, and isn't controlled, isn't that "just a tad" dangerous?

👤Pwnguinz🕑13y🔼0🗨️0

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I'm looking forward to the hi-res images when Red Bull has finally processed them and gotten them up. The video is spectacular to watch again as well.
👤nicholassmith🕑13y🔼0🗨️0

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Does anyone know what will happen to that balloon hanging in there at Stratosphere?
👤reactor🕑13y🔼0🗨️0

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All that for being mentioned in the same breath as Neil Armstrong..
👤BenBoone🕑13y🔼0🗨️0