First successful parachute jump--without a chute--from 25k

Apparently, today, a man deliberately jumped from 25,000 feet (using oxygen which he handed off for the first 10k feet) and managed to hit a target the size of a American baseball diamond---a net suspended 20 stories off the ground---landing without a parachute.

There are, of course, anecdotal stories about survivors of extremely high falls (WW II gunners and whatnot who apparently fell from burning aircraft into trees and snow and survived and so on and so forth)---

But this is first apparently deliberately-without-a-parachute launch from this sort of altitude that someone has planned and survived...No flying squirrel suit either, BTW.

Which is to say: Nope.

Anyway, 20 story high net: F=MA. Need to get his acceleration down to a survivable level---lots of distance to spread that deceleration over to keep the forces down...
SFOGuysays...

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From San Francisco Chronicle's home page. And that was a feed to them from the Associated Press.
Eventually, this will apparently become a commercial---but here it is, commercial-free.

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Esoogsays...

It scared the shit out of me to see how close to the edge of the net he was when he hit it. Maybe it wasn't really that close...but damn, it definitely wasn't in the center. NOPE NOPE NOPE.

In my opinion...that's a pretty careless thing to do with a 4 year old son watching.

SFOGuysays...

To do that with your 4 year old watching...seems careless of someone else's heart, at the least...

Esoogsaid:

It scared the shit out of me to see how close to the edge of the net he was when he hit it. Maybe it wasn't really that close...but damn, it definitely wasn't in the center. NOPE NOPE NOPE.

In my opinion...that's a pretty careless thing to do with a 4 year old son watching.

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