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...
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SFOGuy*promote
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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littledragon_79Pretty sure they should've made the net bigger...to make sure there was enough room for his balls.
PaybackAfter about 12 seconds, he's travelling as fast as he's going to travel at any point during the jump. The rest of the distance is just style...
Eukelekit most apparently seems *blocked now
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SFOGuyThank you!
The video pretty much steals the thunder of the chewing gum promoters, so, yep, I expect it to appear and disappear with some regularity.
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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.
SFOGuyTo do that with your 4 year old watching...seems careless of someone else's heart, at the least...
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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