23 mile skydive!

Glaucus said:
What does gravity have to with your ability to jump. You don't need gravity to jump, you need gravity to come back down. It would be awkaward, but certainly possible to jump off a surface in zero g.

They do it all the time inside the ISS.
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Gravity is everywhere. Saying that if you jump "away" from earth from the ISS you will get lost in space. If you jump towards earth you will continue to accelerate until you reach the atmosphere and vaporize
 
He pulled his chute at 5200ft just 200ft before the agreed safe height.

I honestly just think that they didn't think he would get that fast. Even without the spin I think the record would have been very close. He does have the record 'without a drogue chute'.
 
mranderson said:
Gravity is everywhere. Saying that if you jump "away" from earth from the ISS you will get lost in space. If you jump towards earth you will continue to accelerate until you reach the atmosphere and vaporize
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Oh no, this is too stupid to ignore. Unless your legs are made of some kind of hyper-accelerated robotics made of unobtainium, there's no way you're going to achieve either escape velocity or de-orbit velocity by jumping off the ISS. If you did have legs that powerful, you'd probably end up destroying the ISS in the process. :D
 
SlyReaper said:
Oh no, this is too stupid to ignore. Unless your legs are made of some kind of hyper-accelerated robotics made of unobtainium, there's no way you're going to achieve either escape velocity or de-orbit velocity by jumping off the ISS. If you did have legs that powerful, you'd probably end up destroying the ISS in the process. :D
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Well that's technically true, you could literally float of the ISS and de-orbit eventually, ISS is not above the atmosphere, which is why it's orbit needs bro be boosted once in a while.
 
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