Crazy Sky Dive

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I was just watching a Boards of Canada video online and they had the strangest footage in it. A guy performing what looked like a sky dive from space. Turns out it was just that. Capt. Joseph Kittinger in 1960 jumped from a balloon at 102,800 feet and freefell for 4.5 minutes at speeds up to 614 mph (almost the speed of sound)!!! This is one of the absolute craziest things I have ever seen, and I had NEVER heard of it before. Wow.



Here's a link to some video.
 
Woo Hoo! That was cool. :bigups



If you study the physics it shouldn’t be all that crazy but in the real world it took awfully big cajones to trust his butt to a sliderule and a sixties vintage spacesuit.





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I'd heard about this jump before be had no idea there was video of it. It's a bit before helmet cams really hit the scene. I don't hear about too many folks trying to beat this one.
 
I think they had a separate balloon to haul his balls up to that altitude. He must have some big ones to jump out of that thing.
 
paul79uf said:
damn, I thought I was a badass for skydiving from 16k feet....



I bow down to this mad man
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Same here lol. Jumping out of a plane is nutz, I couldn't imagine jumping out of a ballon that high. Wasn't that basically the edge of where earth/space meet, or do you knwo what the height is (like when a space shuttle finally reaches space?)
 
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