23 mile skydive!

Go Felix GO!!!

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Also on this Sunday, 20.30, BBC HD.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

In this one-off documentary, Space Dive tells the behind-the-scenes story of Felix Baumgartner's historic, record-breaking freefall from the edge of space to Earth.

The world watched with bated breath when Felix became the first person to freefall through the sound barrier on 15 October 2012, after jumping from 128,100ft (24 miles) from the edge of space.

Space Dive features footage, which until now has been kept closely under wraps, from cameras attached to Felix, as he broke through the sound barrier. The documentary follows Felix as he underwent years of training under the watchful eye of 82-year-old colonel Joe Kittinger, the man who set the original record when he fell 19 miles to Earth (102,000 feet) 50 years ago, since which two men died in similar attempts.

During Felix's intense physical training, the cameras capture the basejumper as he struggles to overcome a severe claustrophic reaction to the movement-restricting pressure suit, and how the mission came close to aborting in the final stages of the ascent, and saw just how close Felix came to spinning and tumbling to unconsciousness during the jump.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nts6t

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MadMossy said:
Funnily enough if a cat could survive the atmospheric pressure, lack of oxygen and temperature it would still land on its feet just fine.
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Are you a cat ? trying to impress us humans ?

It wouldnt survive though, it would black out, its eyes would pop out, it would start bleeding from probably every part of its body, its body also filling up like a balloon, if it were still in one peace by the time it hit the ground, it would probably land on its head and explode..

ok, lets say it could survive low temp, pressure and o2 and landed on its feet..

So what? its still dead on the floor..
 
Mickie said:
Are you a cat ? trying to impress us humans ?

It wouldnt survive though, it would black out, its eyes would pop out, it would start bleeding from probably every part of its body, its body also filling up like a balloon, if it were still in one peace by the time it hit the ground, it would probably land on its head and explode..

ok, lets say it could survive low temp, pressure and o2 and landed on its feet..

So what? its still dead on the floor..
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It wouldn't be going any faster when it hit the ground than a cat which jumped out of a 5 story building. Plenty of stories of cats spreading as wide as possible to slow themselves down and landing with maybe minor injuries, I'l have to look it up. I think we're getting distracted though :)
 
If anyone missed it and hasn't been able to watch / download it from the BBC site its repeated on BBC 2 tonight at 12.20am
 
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