23 mile skydive!

I don't have a big allowance on my phone contract, but sod it, I will be happy to use it up to watch this... :cool:

Might see if I can pop to a cafe to watch it though. I've been waiting too long for this.
 
So it looks like this is going live at 13:30 BST to confirm. There is a countdown on the site saying 2hrs15minutes as I post this.
 
Yeah its awesome.

But not THAT much more dangarous than a normal skydive.

Yeah no air up there, and the need for a suit +1 danger points

But he will just gradually slow down to terminal velocity as a normal person jumping out a plane does.
 
Combat squirrel said:
Yeah its awesome.

But not THAT much more dangarous than a normal skydive.

Yeah no air up there, and the need for a suit +1 danger points

But he will just gradually slow down to terminal velocity as a normal person jumping out a plane does.
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there is no air resistance so if he doesnt jump out of the capsule right then he will go into a never ending spin that he won't be able to stop and he'll either faint or die due to the heart not being able to pump blood to his brain.

it's MUCH more dangerous
 
You can control your spin once you have air resistance - however if you're knocked out before then of course you cannot. However he will have an automatic activation device (AAD) that will trigger at a certain altitude if he doesn't deploy his parachute. Might not prevent him breaking a leg but it'll certainly save his life.

The biggest dangers are his suit becoming compromised and lack of oxygen supply. The rest of the jump is relatively straight forward - a little more equipment than one would normally wear though. He will start to slow down and gain more control of his body movement/flight.

I cannot imagine (despite having jumped hundreds of times) jumping on the "edge of space" like that. It's phenomenal.
 
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