Anybody watching the idiot jump out from space?

[John L]

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Why is he an idiot?



Imagine being able to bail of low orbit spacecraft during emergencies.

I'm thinking the very same thing Tait. What makes people think he is an idiot?

Hey, he isn't getting the Govmint to pay for any of it, is he? And he is doing it on his own, right? Seems to be a pretty smart move to me.

As I said over at my forum, the only thing missing is that of a surf board so as to do some tricks on the way down. Now that would really be a hoot.


As for the sound barrier, he broke it only because there was almost no atmosphere to add friction and slow him down.

He started out tumbling, and everyone seemed to be worried, but what for. Again he tumbled because of no atmospheric resistance. As a skydiver the second thing I was taught, first being how to land safely, was that assuming the 'frog' position would always, Always, get you in a stable posture. And that is exactly what occurred with him, as shown in the video later.

And he popped out at 7500 ft, a bit high for me. By then he had slowed down to the point where he was no faster than any other skydiver, so the canopy opened like a charm. Nothing unusual, other than the possible blood contamination one.

He did a wonderful job, and absolutely none of it on the Taxpayer's dime. Try to get the Bamster to do something like that.


Someone made the comment that we all now know it is possible for someone in space to safely enter the atmosphere without dying, and be able to land safely after escaping a space craft. But that makes no logical sense

If a person is just drifting in from outer space, then perhaps so, because he/she would not be traveling all that fast. But if escaping from a vehicle/station in orbit, not a chance. If an object is in orbit, it has to be traveling at a high speed in order to defeat gravity, and keep up the centrifugal force. That means any escaping person would almost be traveling at that very fast speed. When they reenter the atmosphere the atmosphere would create such friction that the person would burn up from the heat, unless he/she had a special suit to dump all that heat.

Our intrepid jumber was just floating at 24 miles high before jumping, and thus escaped all that terrible friction. So many people know so little about science it is staggering.