Live! Felix Baumgartner?s record-breaking skydive slated for launch at 1:30 p.m. (EDT)
 

He will attempt a free-fall from a capsule 120,000 feet (36,576 meters) above Roswell, New Mexico.

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wow never heard about it just that whole gfy is waiting for it for like 8 hours already :)

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1084600

thanks for the news :)

Lol :D Didn't see the roswell part tho isn't that area 51? Is he trying to land in there? Won't they blow his ass away if he even comes close? Think i'm confusing Roswell tho, thats just where some people go to see aliens or something maybe.

Can you imagine all the world record skydive poontang this guy is going to get? Pussy is going to be parachuting onto his head for the next few months.

They're going to shut this down because of the wind.

CNN hasn't found out yet and they're still acting like its a go. It's funny that I can find out news before CNN.

I just had a conversation with a friend here a few minutes ago about this...

lets talk about a few things. Terminal velocity... Isnt that just around 120 MPH for a human? You hit it at about 9 seconds into a jump. She said and I heard it in a video that was on cnn or something... that he was going to reach 500+ MPH ... isnt that impossible for a human to sustain? I know the atmopshere is much thinner from where he is jumping... but 500 plus? for everything i grew up learning about terminal velocity and humans and whatever.... doesnt sound right to me.

Terminal Velocity is determined by mass and drag. So a human in a random posture, your friend is right the terminal velocity is around 120MPH. But if you decrease the drag, by going into the bullet position, terminal velocity increases to 200+MPH.. combine that with the thin atmosphere, that's how he can achieve the necessary speed to hopefully break the sound barrier.

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That is just plain crazy wow!

I thought I read that the sound barrier is at 620 MPH.
I would imagine he'll hit that speed prior to getting into thicker atmosphere which will cause more drag and slow him down.

Lucas took the jump for him in a squirrel suit

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The weather yesterday forced his team to cancel his planned ascent in a 55-storey. Because the balloon is so delicate, it could only take flight if winds were 2mph or below.