This is nuts

[SeaCat]

But it sounds like it could be interesting.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38224278/ns/technology_and_science-space/

Cat

 

[Handley_Page]

That's some crazy Ride. I wish him well!

 

[Bebeslut]

Not so nuts. I remember several years ago a fellow made a "balloon" with a lawn chair underneath for him to sit in that he took about three miles up. That's almost to the edge of space.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Hope he makes it. We need all the private enterprise interest in space we can get. Go, Baumgartner!

 

[mynameisben]

That isn't nuts. {insert highly inappropriate wardrobe malfunction here} is nuts!


Whoops. Sorry, wrong thread.

 

[3113]

Read about this sort of thing a couple of years ago. Could be done, but I don't think I'd like to be the test subject. Best of luck to him.

 

[Neast19]

I'm still plucking up the courage to do a normal sky dive. Hopefully he'll manage it!

 

[squarejohn]

But it sounds like it could be interesting.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38224278/ns/technology_and_science-space/

Cat

That was done in the late 1940s or 1950s.

 

[Weird Harold]

That was done in the late 1940s or 1950s.

The whole point is that nobody has done it since and there is better technology today to gather data on the conditions and effects. A successful stratospheric dive for Baumgartner will break at least four record set in those 50's Air Force tests.

 

[Handley_Page]

Not so nuts. I remember several years ago a fellow made a "balloon" with a lawn chair underneath for him to sit in that he took about three miles up. That's almost to the edge of space.

If you refer to the incident over LAX, he got to just short of 12000 ft before he was rescued.
The modern Bomber flies at 12 miles up.
And there's a lot more to go!

 

[Songcatcher]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhvfCFCfdNk&feature=player_embedded

 

[SeaCat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhvfCFCfdNk&feature=player_embedded

I keep clicking on your links hoping they will somehow be related to the thread you have posted them in. Unfortunately they never are. Are you a brain dead pissant trolling everything about you for a reason or are you merely a politician on the make?

Cat