Jan 22 2010I'd Do It: Man Plans To Freefall From 23 Miles And Break The Sound Barrier With His Body

DIZAMN!!!

OH SHITBALLS!!!

Red Balls...It gives you wings!

I bet his arm rips off before he lands.

Wow.... thats a really well made video... Does anyone know how they are going to overcome air resistance to reach the 730 mph or so speed required? Normally free fall for humans is around 120 mph... thats a big difference

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Everybody please ignore comment 4 please. He doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. I guess he is blind cause he thinks the guy only has one arm. Or extremely stupid. Which is my guess.

Plus his momma is so fat that Red Bull is using her as a landing pad in case dude's parachute malfunctions. Oh Shit haterz aints got shit on me!!!

Two words: terminal velocity

if he is higher in the atmosphere air density is lowered so the terminal velocity is reduced, so he might break the sound barrier.

I second number 8, unless he is bailing out of an SR-71, not gonna happen

@5 The higher you are, the less air to provide resistance. When Kittinger did it, he hit 714 just a few seconds after jumping out of a balloon at 100,000. As he falls, the air will thicken and slow him down gradually so he doesn't get ripped into 9 million pieces when the parachute opens

I thought red bull gave you wings, so you wouldn't fall.

@12 Your pathetic little attempt at a joke failed miserably... try again.

therealRoboticDeathArmy... english is not your first language is it?

When you break the sound barrier, you catch up to your sound waves and then surpass them. This means he will have to scream all the way down, otherwise there won’t be a barrier.

If an object does not make a sound, is there a sound barrier to break? Or will they just silently slip past the required velocity? And if they silently slip by, can it be regarded as "breaking the sound barrier”?

It's that whole "if a tree falls onto a bear s*hitting in the woods does it make a sound?" or something like that

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@8 At the top of the ozone layers there is less air there for less friction and by consequence terminal velocity can reach greater speeds.
So he really has a small window in which its possible to reach such speeds

The original video of Joe Kittenger doing this: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f92_1264025550

I had an experience similar to this when I was repelling down Mount Vesuvius when suddenly I slip, and I start to fall. Just falling, ahh ahh, I'll never forget the terror. When suddenly I realize "Oh s**t! Hansel, haven't you been smoking Peyote for six straight days and couldn't some of this maybe be in your head? And it was. I was totally fine. I've never even been to Mount Vesuvius...

@15... the soundwave is really just compressed air built up in front of the moving object that pops when passed. Hence sonic boom. So any moving object creates this regardless of noise created by the moving object.

So like with the bear shi*&*ng in the woods the answer is this: Ofcourse. If a bear is in the woods he's gonna sh!t there. Where else would he sh!t?

1:26-1:29.... THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.

Well good luck to him then.

@20... Well, from what I know about you, the bear probably shits in your mouth while you're in the woods.

Also thanks for the mini wikipedia lecture on soundwaves and sonic booms you ass.

Oh shit 0.o

I have never been more amazed, happy, as i wasn in my entieer life!!!

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@25 yoo have small penix

Alone he will jump.....

Alone he will die....

23 miles above the surface of the earth, I just can't comprehend how much Felix's body will be put through falling from that distance..He is the king of flying though, that channel crossing was sick as f**k.
Shame, he's gonna be missed!!

crazy austrians... but if they need the kick this badly, it's better to do it this way than to start ANOTHER world war.

robots have already done it, LONG LIVE OUR ROBOT OVERLORDS.
also robots have gone back in time and raped t-rexes, that's why dinos are extinct.

Aw Man what a way to go. If that parachute doesn't open we're gonna see one hell of a splat, Although if it's over an ocean i'd have one word to say....

CANNONBALL!!!!

@15 are you suggesting that a man falling through the air at 730mph will make no sound? That's fairly retarded. SPL - sound pressure level. Look it up.

@26 I'm guessing Fake naas.

@31 Greendayfag fail. Here, have some GOOD Greenday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fevGo3H5840

Poor guy doesn't realise i've already broken the sound barrier with my pelvic thrust.

Yousa thinking yousa people ganna die?

You can break the sound barrier with a whip...

I'd be more interested if he was going for the light barrier.

On August 16, 1960, he made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). Towing a small drogue chute for initial stabilization, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m)

http://www.balloonlife.com/publications/balloon_life/9510/balloonm.htm,
there are some who say he only reached 9/10ths the speed of sound but the military claimes he surpassed it

Someone has given this a lot of thought:

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/JianHuang.shtml

But it's simple. Just remember:

1. Sound is slower when it's cold. At 100,000 ft it might be 100 below zero. Instead of 760 mph the speed of sound may only be about 650 mph.

2. When the air is thin you fall faster. At 100,000 ft the air is about 1/100th as thick, and terminal velocity is 10 times greater. Since a normal skydiver hits about 120 mph, he should be able to get to over 1000. Even at 75,000 feet you might be able to hit mach 1.

3. An experienced skydiver diving feet-first goes faster, maybe 200mph. So 1000mph seems achievable.

There's probably something that happens at mach1, some extra resistance you have to get thru. I dunno.

This whole stunt is rather silly of course, it's 100% for thrills and publicity, there're no "learnings for medical or scientific advancement" here. Still, sounds like fun.

There are always idiots who say "Terminal Velocity, it can't be done" Then they probably think, "ha, I'm smarter than all of those scientists, wait till people read my comment they'll be blown away at my superior intellect." Guess what? YOU'RE STUPID!!!

I once would have broken the sound barrier when I was basejumping from the moon. but there was no air to make sound so I went back in time and fondled a mammoth instead.

hell probably break the ground barrier after breaking the sound barrier.

a flaming spacesuit with boiled meat inside colliding with the ground at mach 1.

lol

why a mammoth?! when you could go back in time to fondle dinosaurs!...
hope this guy makes it ok.

That's all fine and dandy, but It won't be nearly as awesome as when Kittinger did his jump nearly fifty years ago.

$10 says his space diaper is filled shortly after he jumps.

@15- You should really think about going back to college, if you ever went. The sound barrier is broken by a physical object surpassing the speed of sound. Quiet or not, it's the laws of physics. I LAUGHED AT HOW IGNORANT YOUR ANSWER WAS. And who the fuck said WIKIPEDIA? That's your fucking source? PICK UP A SCIENCE BOOK YOU DUMB FUCKS.

@42 Dinosaurs probably have internal genitelia and therefore are unfondulable-bl-ble.

@45 DARG I'm a comedy fag I know everything about stupid shit. I need to learn how to read instead of just skim shit. I use caps to look awesome. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKN NUB! You go back to college bitch. I'll sick my RoboticArmy on your stupid ass. You fuckin dumbfuck. PICK UP AN ENGLISH BOOK YOU DUMB FUCK.

Yeah thought this story was much cooler when I misread it to the effect of "Man Plans To Freeball From 23 Miles And Break The Sound Barrier With His Body"

@42 DINOEROTIC FTW!

@46 You'd think that, but they aren't afraid to whip it out.

@47 you are the least funny troll I've ever seen.

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I can't believe that many people drink Redbull Energy Drinks
that they have enough money to blow on rediculous stunts like this.

My wife HATES when I break the sound barrier with my body. Of course it's probably just the smell she hates...

Fucking idiot.

my ass broke the sound - and the smell barier

What is this, the homeless comedians annual meeting?Only one comment made me laugh.The rest of you muppets need to go back to your sandwich board day jobs.

I wonder the amount of radioactivity/exposure present at that height.

COOL STORY HANSEL!!!

Whoa, whoa, easy! How 'bout a Good afternoon, Derek and Hansel. Thanks for the freak fest last night.